When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.

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.

Never stop studying the Holy Scriptures .

Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.