The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

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.

When a man losses faith he betrays a hero

Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.

There's this shop in New York I go to it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.

Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.