Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

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

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

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.

Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person.

I did that girly little sighing thing you do when you can't handle all the sweetness anymore and bit my lip.

If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.