Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.
My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.
Herr Schuster: [when Lola arrives at the bank for the "third" time] Are you here at last, honey?
Zeke: [to pigs] Get in there, before I make a dime bank out of you.
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.
Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
My arm came back just as quickly as it went sore on me in 1915. I awoke one morning and learned I could throw without pain again.
