Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.
My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.
I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
Back in the day, before he was president, you just know James Madison's homies called him JMad.
I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.
Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.
I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
