There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

As they say in the rodeo business, he just drew a tough one. There were a lot of positives for Jason to take out of this. He put us in a position to win.

Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.

Her face looked like it would shatter any second.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.