A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.

It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street.

Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Being unwanted unloved uncared for forgotten by everybody I think that is a much greater hunger a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.