"I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run."

"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world."

"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat."

"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."

"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results."

"The silent observer understands that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type."

"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."