Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.

The approachable individuals are the first ones that I introduce myself to because they make me feel emotionally safe.

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.