I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down – oh my God, it’s a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.