The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job .

My focus is always on the conditions that create social problems, not just a particular person.

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

One has to practice wisdom through living in the present.

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.