When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

The most formidable thing standing between your dreams and you

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding

We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.

He brushed my curls back off my face. “I never pictured my life so complete. I never thought I’d have everything I want. You’re everything to me, Angel.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.