Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

As a kid, she'd always loved Halloween. A magic night. A night when anything could happen. Monsters could be real. Magic could whisper in the air.

To refuse Jesus as the messiah is to be a hypocrite

Etiquette tip: If you're looking for the right time to leave a party, when the host yells, "No one leaves here alive, " that's your cue.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

A really good horror film has a story.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.