I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.
A lot of our lives are about being polite.
I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.
I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives. . . it's not me and it's not my look.
My awkward stage extended well into high school.
My hair walks into a room before I do.
My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a story within every boxscore and for me - the more outrageous the better!
Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what Schleiermacher would have us do is (a) acknowledge that this is the case and (b) accept it as something positive, a point of departure for a life of trusting joy.
There is a sense in which the Christian's life on earth is a dress rehearsal for heaven. Not in terms of costumes and theatrics, but in terms of worship and devotion to the One we will worship for all eternity - the Lamb who sits on the throne of heaven.
I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.