Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential " whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

BOLD PAC is Hispanic first, Democratic second. And it's a close, close second because we do not engage in endorsing non-Democrats.

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.

Don't waste your energy on negative thinking and focus more on what makes you happy.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.