I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

I like to live as big as I can.

You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Striking out batters was easy.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

Watch my dust.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

I hit big or I miss big.

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

I've been reading Tanith Lee since I was a teenager, beginning with 'The Birthgrave' and 'The Storm Lord.' Only recently did I discover, to my delight, how many more of her books I've yet to read.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

I don't know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I'll give you sexy. Put me at a dinner table with some candlelight and the moon shining in and, oh, I will give you dork.

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

I want to be Gwyneth Paltrow when I grow up! She's been able to have such a great career, such a great family and she stays so humble and so real.

I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

I never forget the first time I was on 'Top of the Pops', my bass player said: 'You've made it!' I did used to think, when I was younger, that I'd be on there one day.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

My fan base is really, really young. They're the youngest demographic that you can track on YouTube: 13- to 17-year-old females. But the fan mail that I get in my P.O. box, they're all from moms and from kids who are two years old, three years old, four years old.

Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make peoples lives brighter. You just shake somebodys hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.