Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

It's good to do things that are out of the norm.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.