Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

L-EVELSO-FV-ARYINGE-MOTIONSBEING IN LOVE IS ALWAYS A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP!

I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation?

Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.

From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

Everything is natural and nature is the whole of everything of which I am apart of and so are you.

The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself.

Tis immortality to die aspiring.

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.