I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

At the heart of all things is love.

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind.

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

I'm too busy having fun to be mean and nasty.

When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.

Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~