We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

There's never peace in war....perhaps it exists in one's mind at the time.. however short-lived

Freedom you earn is more powerful than freedom handed to you.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.