Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness