Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Good is not good when better is expected.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

I honestly think there's people who just perceive me different.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.