When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

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.

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.

Sometimes the hardest part of growing it is not the responsabilities you might get, but it is to lose the essence of love, and never find the way back to where it was.

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

It's completely inappropriate. It's not journalism. It's opinion.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

When you see #‎ happiness in the happiness of others, that's when you will be truly happy.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.