I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Suffering is overated.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?