I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

Actors never discuss future plans.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

The one constant in life is baseball