Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

Tears are the messengers of true love.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

Too much intensity can be a bad thing.

Ceremony is all backbone.

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.