I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

I am sustained by Being Necessary.

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes