Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

I can throw out any man alive.

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

I don't think you can set up a computer to do a strike zone on a guy who's 6-foot-5 and then a guy who's 5-8. Where does it draw the line? One guy stands tall, and another squats down, and it changes the lines. Nah. I still love the umpires; they do a great job. I don't have a problem with any of that.

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?

My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.

That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.

The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind them where they are. Some, you remind them about mechanics, and some, you have to bust their tail. You have to make them your friend and have them trust you.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. Hes got to ride that nag till it drops.

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

I certainly know that on our first tour of America in 1968, David Crosby came to see us backstage at the Fillmore East in New York, and I was very pleased to meet him from Buffalo Springfield and that kind of stuff. He didn't ask me anything about the music, but he said, 'Where'd you get your clothes, man?'

I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.

I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I think it's nice to see where she's spending her time.

What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of good-nature. The goodness goes; the sacrifice sticks.

You are the sun in my day the wind in my sky the waves in my ocean and the beat in my heart... Thinking of You!

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

Discipline is the bridge between your bodybuilding goals and bodybuilding success.

Anyone who knows me or my past knows that I never walk away from a fight.

We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

You can do anything as long as you dont stop believing. When it is meant to be it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

When I was younger, I always assumed that when I grew up, I would be living in the country, and my kids would be going to a state school. But that's not how things have turned out. I can't see myself being able to leave London.

Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.

When I joined Gucci in 2002, I immediately wanted to make a research trip into the archives because I'd heard about how incredible they were, but I never had the opportunity to visit them.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.