He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

Champions don't become champions in the field---they are merely recognized there.

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

We're still buzzin' about Bruce Springsteen at halftime, but I'll tell you if there was one guy we weren't thinking was 'Born To Run' it was James Harrison.

All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

There is no gardening without humility

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.

You just have to keep in mind that the important relationship is the relationship with the audience. That's what I try to do. Everything else is secondary.

What is done hastily cannot be done prudently.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.