The crowd makes the ballgame.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

Well, I've always wanted to call my son

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event.

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'