Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.