World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
There are several things that keep me grounded and focused. . . When you can humble yourself to say 'I'm no more important than anyone else. I just have a gift. '
I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed.
One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.