Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.

she's so caught up she's unaware she's no longer the prisoner here, I am

Live is good!

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch people go by. So I enjoy just meeting people and hearing their stories.

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.