Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.

God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

I miss baseball.

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

It's always great when you're really needed.

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.

You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.

Birds of a feather flock together

Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

Everyone talks about discovery, but I really believe that great content finds its audience.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.