“You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.”

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

If I didn’t wake up I’d still be sleeping.

How can a you hit and think at the same time?

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I’d start playing.

I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ’em.

I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.

If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.

Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn’t something to shrug off.

I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.

You try not to because it’s hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest.

There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

lf. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

You can march to your own beat. It’s so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.

Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.

I love factoids. It’s hard for me to keep those out. It just takes realizing that it’s stopping the character.

Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.

And be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it’s hard to tell.