The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

Some players tell me that since retiring they've had the urge to go somewhere every three days. To satisfy that urge, they may even jump in the car and drive around the block.

Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.

There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed.

They will look at my career as the guy who gave it all but at the same time did it with integrity. That's what we all aim for - the respect of the game as well as the honesty that's played a part of that game.

You can't hide God in you. God was not meant to become part of you, and you hide out in the closet. I don't think He wanted that. I think He wanted people to see the Christ in you that reflects Him.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Things I say are sometimes silly.

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear.

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

People love steak all over the United States.

We must question every inner-belief we possess without fear or attachment.

The best advice is often the compliments received and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that its the random acts of kindness the unexpected that people remember most.

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.