Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.

The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.

If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

If we can teach children to think beyond the five senses, we can raise a generation of leaders that will be able to sustain the future.

It was electric and we couldn't deny it anymore, even when our words spoke different the energy we drew from each-other spoke too loud, it was almost impossible to ignore.

A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

I'd have no problem serving under any president.

Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...