I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

You there is such a thing as a door, " I whispered. "You should try it some time.

A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

As long as I'm in good shape, you'll always see me smiling.