One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

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

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

You don't build a bond without being present.

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.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.