Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

Every day we'd trudge up the hill - it was a three-quarter-mile walk up this steep hill to the Leach Pottery, and we would take our lunch with us and generally, I guess, make a nuisance of ourselves.