Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

The only thing standing between her and her beautiful new home was her own silly insecurity and Matt Reed.

Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.

To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love.

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.