“If you don't think too good, don't think too much.”

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”

“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.”

“All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."”

“All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be all signed and burnt up - come running out into the open, eyes big as biscuits, everyb...”

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”

“A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.”

“I was adored once too.”

“I was a teacher once.”

“Once players have my trust, they have it.”