What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.