I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.