When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

See the ball; hit the ball.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

Be VERY careful of who or what you entertain when you’re bored. Boredom can get you caught up in some foul stuff. Trust!

White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe. If they did... everything would be grey

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer to do my research in books.