A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

I believe immigration reform is a commitment of President Obama's government, especially since it gives him a chance to respond to the great demand expressed by U.S. Hispanic voters.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

I'm just like my fans, and that's the way I like it.

When I went to the all-Ireland final - Kerry against Dublin - I couldn't get away for an hour and a half with people coming up and wishing me all the best. Not one of them said, 'Martin, when did you leave the IRA?' But every one of them knew I was in the IRA at one stage.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

How young can you die of old age?

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.

I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And when they actually met me they ran behind their parents' legs and cowered for shelter.

There's something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.

You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.

America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

By giving people the power to share were making the world more transparent.

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is and follow my heart Ive proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I havent been listening to my heart in the last little while.

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positve, it will take their breath away.

There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.