When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

In order to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.

The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not.