You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

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.

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being