Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.

And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.