I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

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.

Renew your mind with the word of God.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either.

Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.