“I loved to make a great defensive play, I’d rather do that than hit a home run.”

If I were catching blindfolded, I’d always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn’t the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn’t going to say every day,

Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.’

He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.

I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their democracy up and running, we’ve got to help them train their military and police and security people, and we’ve got to start moving out.

It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.

A rational army would run away.

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.