Your brain commands your body to "Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!" Then your body says "Who me?"

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.

For you to be effective in your promised land, you must study the land

Brunettes are full of electricity.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

Well, you need to hear about money, because you ain't gonna have no love and joy and peace until you get some money!

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

Start today to follow your heart. Map out your own journey. Have the adventure of a lifetime.

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

I'd like to get some new clothes, but I can't find a Big and Short store.