I'm just living a normal life - a regular life, as people would call it. I'm enjoying it.

I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."

Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack.

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Miguel and Justin, the two biggest guys on the team, welcomed me right away and once the cool kids in school like you, it's easy to get along.

A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

She held my face in her hands as if I was the treasure.

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.