Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

There is only one power greater than fear, and that is faith. Use your faith to move the mountains that are standing in your way today!

Even "meant to be" takes work.

Faded is my heart.... Faded is my dream....Faded they may seem.... Never I scream!

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

My compulsion is to create things.

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.