You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

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.

it only takes sparks to light a fire

I will not interfere with a male dragon while he is rutting.

Nobody can experience everything, so you need to borrowthe experience of others.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.

For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.

I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.