The crowd makes the ballgame.

Don't come home a failure.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

The crowd makes the ballgame.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war and when you get right down to it we batters are the heavy artillery.

Speed is a great asset but its greater when its combined with quickness and theres a big difference.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness and there's a big difference.

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.

Staffing branches with tellers can be considered a premium service in a world where fewer customers visit bank branches for transactions.

If you can laugh together, you can work together

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Beethoven's fourth and seventh symphonies have a certain amount in common. Well, of course they're both written by Beethoven, but besides that, I would say their overall effect and idea is to provide the listener with an incredible sense of joy.

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything.

Clarity and focus doesnt always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.