I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

You can either take it as a way to motivate yourself or be happy with what you've got.

A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.

Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

I'm not a big city guy...there's too many people, there's too much traffic.

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

Life's nycer when it's Naughtie!

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

I say nothing, because I was able to get Barack Obama to produce [birth certificate]. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing.

We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.

Man, we’ve got something special. Don’t screw it up.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.