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.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

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

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

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

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

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 can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

I’m filthy rich!

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.