Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.

God, I just love baseball.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

I'm not good at compromise.

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.

People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I can see the crops dying. Okay, now I get it.' It is finally beginning to sink in that there has been a lot of damage.