I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.
When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.
Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.
I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.
They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.
