To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.