The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth?

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

We're kind of an international phenomenon.

It doesn't cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.