I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.