The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.

I'm very proud of the fact that I voted against the Iraq war. And proud that I voted strongly not for students to be saddled with thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt.

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

I don't tend to go out that much.

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

But I was empty inside. I was spiritually at rock bottom.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace we need love and compassion.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

A good marriage is like a casserole only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

I'm not a tycoon or anything like that. Does my property amount to several million dollars? Of course it does.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.