Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.