Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form.

I'm such a robot when it comes to work.

I will be the first to say, when I started, I was the worst on the runway ever. I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway; I try to get better with each one. I hope that I'm getting better as I go - it takes a few seasons to get your Karlie Kloss walk on.

The Godhead consists of three separate, distinct personages who are one in purpose. The Father and the Son have tangible bodies of flesh and bone while the Holy Ghost is a personage of spirit.

I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?

What matters in life is what you care about and what you will continue to make effort towards caring about it.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.

Memory…like an old musical box it will lie silent for long years; then a mere nothing, a jerk, a tremor, will start the spring, and from beneath its decent covering of dust it will talk to us of forgotten passion and desire.

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

I've started the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health. The big focus is helping people get the correct diagnoses.

I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but people who I thought were great enough that they really made a difference. And so I would never want to be disappointed by them, and I want to make sure I never disappoint audience.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Its incredible how many wounds can be healed by the two words ˜I'm sorry'.

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.

I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that Im most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.

We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.