I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I've never been a yes man.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.

Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.

Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day.

Everyone that needs to be protected, should be protected.

The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.

If you tweet for me, I'll tweet for you.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other, they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in the world where I grew up, in Chicago in the Fifties and Sixties, one key way of protesting ourselves - 'we' meaning black people - against racism, against its stereotypes and its insults, was to curate and narrate very carefully the story of the people.

All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.

I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.

It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

To get divorced because love has died is like selling your car because its run out of gas.