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.

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.

I like tight bodies and pretty faces. You bring in Methuselah, if she's got a tight body and a pretty face, that's all right, too.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that its very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.

Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

Let pride go afore shame will follow after.

Integrity reveals beauty.

People who are creative, who do it as a lifestyle, it's kind of silly to make that claim you're done, because you just never know when that spark is going to hit you again. You can't necessarily predict how you're going to feel. In ten years I'll be 58, and I might still feel like making a punk record.

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today - and that Haiti has a nascent democracy - is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It's because the world has said, 'Enough.'

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

Over the years, I've had a few roles where I've had to take my shirt off. I've kind of been the 'shirt-off' guy.

I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.

I believe in persevering. If you persevere, success lies ahead of you.

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.

It's quantity, not quality.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.