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.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

My life is a struggle.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

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

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.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

My life is mine to remember.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

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.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Our life is made by the death of others.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.