Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

God’s goal is to multiply His people

It's simple. You enrich your life when you enrich the lives of others.

When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

I'm a Capricorn, actually.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.