I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

I can't take another day of this.

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

We humans progressively exterminate every support mechanism. The earth progressively degenerates toward a form of quadriplegia, completely impotent to protect all it sustains.

I've got my doubts, there's no doubt about it

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.

I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.

I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot.