I would always say to kids, don't be afraid to dream, because it can happen.

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Good is not good when better is expected.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!

Let your words be petty and actions plenty!

Mary obtains salvation for all who have recourse to her. Oh! If all sinners had recourse to Mary, who would ever be lost? ... He who is protected by her will be saved; he who is not will be lost.

The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

I love to cook. I could never give that up.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

Every day on the water is a good day!

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.