He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.

... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.