I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite “thank you, ” it is the recognition of dependence.

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.

There's nothing worse than a poorly staged house.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

The American dream only makes sense if you're sleeping.

To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].