Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Anybody who’s ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

I didn’t have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game’s two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.

I’ll go back and take what the people owe me.

I’m not Mother Teresa, but I’m not Charles Manson, either.

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, ‘Well, what do I do? What’s best for me?’ I need to look into options for the future.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I’ve found out that having one woman a thousand different times...

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it’s so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it’s just a dream.

It doesn’t matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the...

Educate yourself. Understand what you’re dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It’ll help you cope. It’ll help your child.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly...

Onstage I’m the happiest person in the world.

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

I don’t give players a chance to hit me.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if...

I like trying to win. That’s what golf is all about.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, You’re too ornery to die.

I ain’t the same person I was when I bit that guy’s ear off.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can’t use that as an excuse that we had so many...

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

We have three tremendous tight ends in Christianson, Casper, and Chester.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I’d have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

It doesn’t matter what you’re trying to accomplish. It’s all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it’s fine.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all...

I run to see who has the most guts.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don’t always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

I’m rich, freakin’ rich. It’s crazy.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be...

I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago,...