It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every day.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.

Life is beautiful, enjoy every moment of it.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.