Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

No amount of pics posted on your web, homepage, blog etc is going to change your devastated image but another humble restarts.

Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.