I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven.

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn’t exist… First you’re slightly disappointed, and then you’re happy because you’re in on the secret

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.