What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to look at your face again.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

I'm a very determined person.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.