A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!