I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

You never know who’s watching.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.

I like being close to the bats.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

While the Holy Spirit is hidden, He is never, ever absent

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

There is something so beautiful inside you that if you knew it, you would fall in love with it. It is irresistible. You can truly experience that.

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.