I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a story within every boxscore and for me - the more outrageous the better!

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

I'm an early riser and feel that some of the best ideas come to you between 5 and 6 a.m.

Position yourself with people who see life as a journey of limitless opportunities and great possibilities.

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

A brand is simply trust.

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.