You have to be confident, but there are no easy at bats. There are no lay ups; there is no wide open pass. There is a guy on the mound who is trying to feed his family.

It can take years to earn respect, but it only takes one day to lose it.

Living in fear or judgement is not how I will spend my life. Realizing that this life is all I get and your life is all you get, brings a need to make the best of all possible.

I'm the man of a million names.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

Even if you break with me and crush my heart, I'm never getting back together with Dawn. I know that the world isn't flat now, I'm not going back.

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

I'm not incredibly hipster. I wasn't cool enough to handle it.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.

It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference.

Not only in Canada but in other countries where we have to rely on immigration for our growth, the question of coexistence of values in communities is important. It has to be dealt with.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.