American Quotes

Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

I am the best in baseball.

Hitting is better than sex.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

Fans don't boo nobodies.