Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.
I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.
You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.
I always fielded the team that I felt had the greatest chances of success.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.