When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.

We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

To enjoy a beautiful life, always believe in your heart that life is wonderful.

I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.