I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?

Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.