I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

I’m fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time.

Parallel lines meet at infinity. Looking back from said point, do parallel lines ever not meet?

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.