Please don't quote me.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Never let your dreams go away.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Please don't quote me.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana but its fine.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car.

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization however impressive from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

Every game in the NFL is important.

Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than youve ever been to stand up taller than you than you ever were.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

There were times I was told, 'You are too gay.' I turned down a lot of things because producers said they wanted me to be different. I said, 'It's not going to happen.'

Clutter smothers joy while simplicity liberates it. Clutter makes life complicated heavy and wearisome. Simplicity makes life relaxed carefree and invigorating.

Love is friendship set to music.

When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul.

Spaghetti is good with ranch, and spaghetti is good with sugar. You put all of that together and make a sandwich out of it and you get greatness. People shouldn't judge unless they try it.

Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.

Being fearless isnt being 100 Not fearful its being terrified but you jump anyway.

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.