I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.