Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.

... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Every team I'm on, I expect to win. I expect to push my teammates as much as I can, and I expect them to do the same with me.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.