Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time. '
If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's a much more relaxed kind of a culture. It's also competitive, but not in such a vicious way. I think the academic world is actually much more destructive of young people.
[Mike Tyson] was fantastic. Well, here's the cool thing about Tyson. It turns out he's a huge fan of Old School, which was one of Todd Phillips' earlier movies. So he got to the set and he already liked Todd and he trusted Todd.
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can.