Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

Avoid running at all times.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching

If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Work like you dont need the money. Love like youve never been hurt. Dance like nobodys watching.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.