Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

You never know who’s watching.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.

I like being close to the bats.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

I would like to enlighten people.