I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.

There are those who say that all roads lead to God. But Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” [John 14:6 KJV].

There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?

For you, anything.

I don't need anyone, I said.Then you cameI need I need! I NEED YOU. I needed you.What did you teach me?Not to need you.NOT TO NEED.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.