Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.

When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.