Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

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

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.

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

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.

Gratitude for me is waking up each day, and being able to make a difference in somebody’s life.

I am grateful to the Lord for granting me just what I needed.

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can.

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.