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

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.

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.

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

Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.

One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price... until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims.

The father of every good work is discontent and its mother is diligence.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

We dream our dreams away.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?