You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

How could we have developed our intellectual skills without education?

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.