If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.

You don't get harmony when everyone sings the same note.

The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

People, based on their emotion, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics 'cause there are none.

AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.