You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

He's sitting in the catbird seat.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you’re going to be doing and not for what you have done. Don’t take in more than you’re willing to burn off.

There's a deep piece of me that wants to be very personal and not share everything with everybody and not put it out there.

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

The image of myself that I give on social media isn't actually who I am; it's not 100 percent me, obviously.

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.

I truly believe in the value that stories have in being able to elevate humanity and make the world a better place.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean that they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Theres a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Today I attended a friends birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.

It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.