I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

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.

In the 21st century, it can't be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are and what we're going to do.

Let's run the experiment.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.

Heaven'll be our last move!-No baggage, no luggage, no hard journey, no packing, no long travel! It may be a long way, but it may be closer than you think!

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?