When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

I don't fit in because I don't want to disappear.

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

If you have life, you have purpose.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

Everything that you want to create is already there. Your job is to connect yourself to it.