You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.

However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.

The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.

You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.

God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives and in the life of America.

There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

I'm doing a much smaller movie. It's set in Germany and it's a totally different subject matter. I'm trying to break it up.

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.