Good is not good when better is expected.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

Good is not good when better is expected.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

You can almost taste the pressure now.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you're not going to talk pitches for three hours.

I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.

The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

RNase H is a specific RNase that will cleave the RNA of a DNA/RNA duplex.

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education and economic empowerment cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Thus, effective programs need to tackle the multiple root causes of poverty.

Is Amazon truly the best online buying experience? Absolutely not. Is eBay the best platform for auction? Probably not. Are dating sites like match.com really a reflection of the way people date? Probably not.

Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.

I'm not an easily depressed person.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.

Ideals are the world's masters.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

There will never be a chanel collection without black.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.

My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me.

I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.

We all have our place in this diverse Spain.