Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

Dreams Are Where It All Begins

I don't want to fall in love with you, ' she said, pushing away. 'why not?''because you'll just end up using it against me.

How can we explain such inclinations? They are forces within us that come from a deeper place than conscious words can express.They draw us to certain experiences and away from others.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

[Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.