Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.

Our actions are highly magnetic to our thoughts.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great man and little man.- Thomas Fuller

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

It was hard to follow my dreams... I didn't let anything stop me.

You can make something out of nothing.