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

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.

Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.

I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.

You never know what makes some people tick until they begin to unwind.

I'm a lucky buck.

Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.

I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.

There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.

The measure of a mans real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind!

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seemed like it was a local thing. But three or four days later, by the time we drove across the country in the bus, we realized it wasn't a local thing. You could really feel the states become united. We became the United States of America.

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best.

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

Dont die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Friends are connected heart to heart. Distance and time can't break them apart.

I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm writing and making and thinking about things very seriously and feeling very deeply at times, and trying to translate that into a narrative.

I was inspired by Billie Holliday, and I really liked Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top - she looked hot.

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

In modeling, I had to learn to like myself, to love myself, to feel comfortable.