When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

The work is plentiful but the labours are few.

I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.

Spring is like a perhaps hand

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.