Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.
Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.
We've grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and Oates. Those are all artists who write songs that are accessible but still left of center. It's intelligent pop. There's still something different and complex about it.
I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
Friends who were so supportive absolutely made my high school - that could have been traumatic - they definitely made it bearable.
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
