Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Opportunity will only meet you in the domain of your chosen attitude.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.

My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.