Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

I’m committed to the fight game.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Passions are the gales of life.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.