I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world. It's that simple.
The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.
He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.
On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me. '
If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.
They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.
Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.
There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.