Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?

The principle locations of exploitation have moved, through the mechanism of 'globalisation', to where most of us can't see them and don't really care about them if we do.

Love is the ocean. We are all the waves.

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

Go with your gut, but use your head.

Everybody knows what love is in one way or another, and everybody has an answer of what love means to them.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.