When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

Whoever gains good understanding, keeps God's commandment.

Attitude is better than aptitude.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long.

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

Power from on high . . . It is God inserting into you divine activity with mightiness.

When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.