Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

I went to art school when I was little.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.