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

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.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.