Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Good is not good when better is expected.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!

At this moment, I am obscenely happy. Please don’t screw this up or dump me or cheat on me or divorce me.”“All right, ” he said.

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible carnage going on I will send in the feds.

When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

What's going on with the Oakland Raiders? You know, I don't want to say the Raiders are bad, but you know, now, a lot of fans are painting their faces just so they won't be recognized.

I believe in equal rights for all people.