“You can have everything you want as long as you don’t want it badly enough.”

There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em.

80 percent of the balls that don’t reach the hole, don’t go in.

I guess I’ve got a smart wife.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Pitching always beats batting – and vice-versa.

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

We were over-whelming underdogs.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they’d do the same for you.

The game is supposed to be fun. If you had a bad day, don’t worry. You can’t expect to get a hit every game.

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don’t buy it.

I don’t like seeing myself on television. I don’t like it.

Little things are big.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.