The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.

Love is the voice under all silences the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun more last than star.

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.

If there be some harder, better way to salvation than to follow that which we believe to be good, then are we all damned.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning.

We want, certainly, the threats around the world, those that don't like our way of life, we want them to wonder what options we still have.

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

There's so much nonsense tossed around about L.A. and how horrible it is and 'don't go out there' and all that stuff. So I went out to L.A. and I was pleasantly surprised.

I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

The hamburgers in America are the best in the world.