The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They are easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

There are no limitations, just dreams to be fulfilled.

... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.