“I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.”

Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.

I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.

Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can’t hit it.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation.

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.

I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.

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

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

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.

My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.

It’s funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry.

There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

I want to win four or five championship rings. That’s how I dream. I dream big.

Four decades in which to live long and prosper.

I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.

Since the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.