You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.

And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.

A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

Training leaders is part of the work of discipling.

Life is like a wrestling match- we struggle to fight but we never know that the only side that wins is the one with great love in it.

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.