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

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.

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

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

Confess and be hanged.

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Bad company ruins good morals.

In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].