Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.
You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.
The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.
Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.
It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military.
why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.