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

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.

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

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy, " I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.

Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.

We're all stuck between the realm of our desires, their possibilities and the realities of life.

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

You cannot fail at meditation.