The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.

If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

May all humankind find grace.

The process of finding the right doctor for you is excruciatingly painful, sometimes causing more damage than what you started with, but the feeling of finding the right one is priceless.

I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.

Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.