Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.
I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.
The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?
Baseball as I have said before to many. . . many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.
I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.
Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter. He's playing in a wussy era. The game is soft. You never get thrown at today. Last thing a hitter has to worry about today is getting hit. The first thing Hank Aaron had to worry about is: Am I going to survive this at-bat because I'm black.
Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.
I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because you're channeling your loneliness in a way that you're trying to escape to your situation.
The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.