If you don't have the confidence to fall head over heels in love, you don't have the right to love.
I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. Im exhausted and I only played nine innings.
When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues.
If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.
I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.
The key to dealing with people in general is that they have to know that you care about them. You have to deal with people in gentleness. You have to come along side of them. You can't push them. You can't pull them. You have to walk with them. In order to do that, you've got to demonstrate care for that individual. That's my whole thing
Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!
Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?
And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right. '. . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.
There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on. . . . He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.
People only see what they are prepared to see.