When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

It doesn't matter if you have to kick, crawl, scratch, hop, limp, hobble, or be carried to the finish line. Just make sure you finish you race.

Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself.

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

I care a lot; I'm very sensitive.

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.

Human nature fascinates me.