Watch my dust.

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

I like to live as big as I can.

You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Striking out batters was easy.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

Watch my dust.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

I hit big or I miss big.

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

Trust in God - she will provide.

The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.

Love me when I least deserve it because thats when I really need it.

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.