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

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.

Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.

There is nothing like being on stage.

One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to me and said, 'My accounting book is different from yours.' Her name was Joyce, she had a background in finance and administration and ran a surgery center. Within a short time, we were married.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

We cannot do justice to the deeds of former times if we do not in some degree remove ourselves from the circumstances in which we stand and substitute those by which the real actors were surrounded.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

By listening with calm and understanding we can ease the suffering of another person.

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

The more you dream the more you achieve.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.

Fear created the first gods in the world.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.