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

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

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

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

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.

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

But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

People that don't know me, they might think i'm no one, but I let no one to tell me who I am, but me.

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.