As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

Life should be fun, and so should your clothes. It's not about sending a message. It's about feeling good about yourself and being who you are.

When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.

People come up to me and say somebody in their family has cancer, and we appreciate what you do, and we appreciate your fight, and don't give up, we love your attitude.

Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress.

Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me.

I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although there's never been a day where it actually seemed like work.

I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.

I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.

If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted - an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning.

Small but growing is better than big and stuck.

The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

Practice until it becomes boring, then practice until it becomes beautiful.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

That, who keeps his mouth, keeps his Soul.

Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.