I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

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.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

Whilst Adam slept Eve from his side arose Strange his first sleep would be his last repose.

Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it's not totally satisfied.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

Time is purple / Just before night.

This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.

I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.