Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

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.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

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.

All great achievements require time.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

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

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.