A symbolic victory is still a victory.
A nation without heroes is nothing.
I was born to play baseball.
If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.
I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.
How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.
I'm a very bad student, but a great learner.
We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.
I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.