When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

I led the league in go get 'em next time.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.

Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.