There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.
They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.
I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.
It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine. . . People will tell me what a shame it was I had to go back into the service a second time, but I'm kinda glad I did. . Besides, I am a U. S. Marine and I'll be one till I die.
No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.
I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.
I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.
When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.
And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!