Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

See the ball; hit the ball.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better

She batted thoseeyelashes at me so hard I thought I felt a breeze.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory.

But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

Take 30 seconds to encourage everyone you meet today. Everyone. Be genuine and transparent. And do it. Then do it tomorrow. Repeat.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.