Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

You should seek approval from yourself.

I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Rosemarie you are out of line

You told me there wouldn’t be any Rod Serling voice-overs, yet here I am in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode. Oh, and let me guess the title of it, Night of the Terminally Stupid! (Channon)