When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

I have a lot of interests.

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.

I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ.

Space is really big-REALLY big.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.