Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.

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.

The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness

We are bound by the secrets we share.

If you're heartless, try not to steal someone else's

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

If you have a body you are a dancer

I do not need a reason to be angry with God.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.