I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

I have a lot of interests.

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

My job was to fight evil, and my soul was my weapon.

The porcelain doll residing in her white-pillared dollhouse was a mirage.

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.

The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.