Expectations. Strong belief something will happen in the future.Pressure. A motivator. A positive. An indicator you are in the right place.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

If I'm honest with you, you might not like me for a day or two. But if I lie to you, you're going to hate me forever.

Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure.

I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.

I don't say anything. One of the reporters asked me in the scrum in there, and I said, no, I didn't say anything to anybody. I can only hurt them right now. I cannot help them.

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.

When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

There is that. I might have better luck telling him I’m in love with him. Jace thinks everyone’s in love with him anyway.” “But I,” said Clary, “actually am.

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

Then you got Newt Gingrich up here who - didn't he leave his wife while she was dying to marry the next wife? Give me a break, Newt.

What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.