How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

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.

What the hell difference does it make?

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.