Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.

If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

A Man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

A lot of people don't know I'm from the West Coast. My swag is different. Me being from Young Money, affiliated with them, some people think I'm from down South. They think maybe I'm from New Orleans like them. It's just good to show people and build outside of Young Money, build my brand outside of that.

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

In the final analysis, I believe that an atheist chaplain would be the last person in the world that we would want a dying soldier who needs that last moment counselling in their life.

Cam disappears at the end of 'Rapture.' It was the only way for me to say good-bye to him at the time, and it's the way he prefers to split, anyway. I always knew I would return to him. He's been my favorite from the start. Readers have long asked what happened to him, but I had to wait for his story to come to me on its own.

Writing is really a way of thinking not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

Indiana is a state that works because conservative principles work every time you put them into practice.

Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.