I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?

I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

I'm definitely close to Jen [Lawrence]; we're like sisters on set. Every day, she hugs me three times before she leaves, and does little things that are really sweet.