Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.
A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one. '
He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.
He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.
I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.
If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.
I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.
Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.
Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums. "
Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.