The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

I have a lot of interests.

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.