Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

See the ball; hit the ball.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

The essence of life: be good to all souls like you seek them to be good to your soul.

I wouldn't ask too much of her, ' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

I have a secret weapon. And it could have something to do with special robot knowledge.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it.

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.