People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

It doesn’t always click for a new player in a new team: you don’t always go in and hit the ground running and score all the time.

The love for baseball is a love that transcends time and place, connecting us to a rich history

Baseball is a game of history and statistics, but it’s also a game of heart and soul

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.

The search for nirvana, like the search for utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Hit hard, hit fast, hit often.

You don’t hurt ’em if you don’t hit ’em.

Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.

Women are not to be hit. They’re to be hugged and caressed.

I hit this grind, the roof gon’ collapse

Boards don’t hit back

Hit me with music now.

I hit the league straight out the streets with no talent scout.

Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. You can’t hit what your eyes don’t see.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you’re in a fight.