When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equatio...
The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.
I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.
We have to keep our fans watching not just at home on TV but here at the racetrack too. This is where you sell people on the speed and excitement of racing.
I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.
These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
