You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Do I haste to live? Definitely, no. I endeavour to surpass tomorrow's me.

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

The wooden hairbrush has two practical uses, the bristle side to be used on her silken locks, and the harsh, wooden side to be used on her shapely seat of learning

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.

Cheating is a definite no-no. My man has to be all mine or never mind!

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.