When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom.

We have a tried and tested system of government that in being so flexible exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

When was the last time I chose to be happy rather than demanding to be right?

How nice of Acheron to send us a playmate. (Daimon) Play is for children and dogs. Now that you have identified which category you fall into, I'll show you what Romans do to rabid dogs. (Valerius)

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.