I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

You never know who’s watching.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.

I like being close to the bats.

I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.