You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

Divine presence gives meaning to what seems to have no meaning

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

with the police doing all the killing, who do we call when our hero's are the villain

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair.

Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.