Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

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.

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

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

He was the darkest of voices inside her head, the Night-kind King, and when he turned his gift of persuasion onto her, she wanted to take her soul out of her body and hand it to him.

How can I be myself, when others expect me to be someone else?

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school.

In the end words are just wind.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.