The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.

I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

The more self centered and egotistical a guy is the better ballplayer hes going to be.

My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.

It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Children with special needs inspire a special love.

Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

I've had so many letters from people saying I've inspired them to take up riding, and that's an amazing feeling.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves.

Scientists are always skeptics.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.