Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

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

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

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.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

The more I know, the more I realize that I don't know much at all...

An unexpected Blessing is an answer to a Prayer said, trusting that God will get to it, no matter how long it takes.

That someone would mourn her death made her want to live in the fiercest way.

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.

They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.