There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.

Being an entrepreneur cannot be defined by your successes until it has been built by your failures.

Happiness comes from your mindset.

Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

People and their religions don't affect me.

The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search.

You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.