We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

You're not always going to be at your best, but it better be the best you've got that day.

When it’s time, it’s time … and it’s time.

We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

You don't lead by lip service, you lead by example.

He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby.

Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them.

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

This is official today. China has surpassed the U.S. and now has the No. 1 economy in the world. After hearing this, China's children asked, 'So now can we take a lunch break?'

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

I've always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel - the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript