The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
I stare out the window and wait for spring.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.
Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one. . . . . . I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.
It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.