I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

John Dryden

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

U Thant

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

Channing Tatum

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Stephen King

Only one who loves can remember so well.

Anton Chekhov

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Miguel de Cervantes

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

Ornette Coleman

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

Zac Posen

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Phyllis McGinley

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Benjamin Disraeli