I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

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It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

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I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

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If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

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