For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
Best advice is this: Work hard. Nothing is given to you.
Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.
The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit. 370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.
For as many people as I quote-unquote lost respect from, I gained respect from a lot more. I know that's a fact.
You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war. . . not a good comparison.
Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.
My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his family, who had created a war against the Turks at the beginning of the last century to revive the Byzantine Empire. For three years, there was fighting, and all my father's friends died. So he hated the royal family.
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.