Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind you.

You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.

Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart withoutbrain.

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.