When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.

I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.

Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that is so peculiarly his own.