If you work hard everyday and bust your tail on every play, eventually people will notice and word will get around.

My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself.

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.

The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

The Web itself doesn't as much change the way we do things as it changes the ease with which we do things. And that changes the way we do everything.

I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

I’ve kissed death a thousand times before

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters