Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

All I had was natural ability.

Luck is the residue of design.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Baseball is a game of inches.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

A full mind is an empty bat.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

Dont look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself, but for me the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.