Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

Hey, I'm serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have?

Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.

I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower.

Not a very pretty world, is it?""Which one?

The hearts that never lean must fall.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.

All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.