Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

Be addicted to your dream such that it becomes too difficult to wean you from it just like the way drug addicts finds it difficult to stop taking drugs.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.

Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.

I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

Dally was so real he scared me.