Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen.

I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I could overcome those obstacles.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third...and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

My education taught me a lot, but nothing I needed to learn.

Rules are for people with the luxury of time.

Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.