“I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

It ain’t over till it’s over

You can get old pretty young if you don’t take care of yourself.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it’s too crowded.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

You can’t win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

If I didn’t wake up I’d still be sleeping.

How can a you hit and think at the same time?

I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.

I wasn’t ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

I’d never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

One theme that fascinates me is cognitive enhancement. It seems only a matter of time until we live in a world where steroids for the brain are readily available to all. And once we come to grips with that reality,