"When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble."

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."

"I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events."

"Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life."

"It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation."

"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."

"In time of peace prepare for war."

"I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it."