“I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?”

I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.

I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he’s making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don’t make any difference if it’s baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It’s business, I tell you. There ain’t no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

Power and energy games only exist in a relationship when the ego is at the wheel. When we heal our hearts, we can show up as mature beings in service to love.

Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.

Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.

In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.

Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.