I work for ABC television I have my own syndicated TV series. I've been on the cover of 'Time Magazine' and on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' five times.

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.

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

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.

Improving the human condition takes little effort

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night?

If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists.