I hate losing more than I want to win.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

I made one decision in my life based on money and I swore I would never do it again.

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.

We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.