When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

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

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

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