The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

We assassinate. We don't accessorize. But I understand how it is possible to confuse the two.

I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.

Accepting the apology signals the acknowledgment of a need to move forward, but not necessarily together.

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.