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.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.