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

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I dwell in possibility.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I can do whatever I want.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

From caring comes courage.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.