The game is full of peaks and valleys, the key is to avoid the Grand Canyon.

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.

If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.

All the world's a stage.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.

I usually have a title in mind before I start.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.