I stick to safe, controlled movement. If it's not safe, I just won't do 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.

Mendacity is a system that we live in, " declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

The power of nature is stronger than anything.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers...Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.