Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

You guys ready to do this?

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

The sky already fell. Now what?

I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.