A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.
I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.
We all have different ways to do things.
Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.
After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.
I'm not a great pregnant woman.
Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.
Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so.