I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

I'm not saying I was trying to get out from his shadow, because we're good friends and we've played on every team together, but everybody thinks I played better after he was gone. I think the team just jelled. And people forget, I hurt my wrist sliding early in Spring Training and I was out four weeks and around the time I got healthy, he got promoted.

The shortest distance between new friends is a smile.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.