And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

A million years went by quick.

But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.

Hate will only eat the truth, then spit out a lie.

The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but just looked like the same devil to me

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

It's sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will.

[Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

[You] have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.