My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a story within every boxscore and for me - the more outrageous the better!

I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

I'm an early riser and feel that some of the best ideas come to you between 5 and 6 a.m.

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

The sky has a huge heart open for all clouds even on the gloomiest of days.

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

Plan your work and work your plan.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

That same manne, that renneth awaye,Maye again fight, an other daye.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.