“This time you’ve dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.”

The most relaxing thing i do, hang halfway out a 3rd floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out.

I’ll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life.

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown.

I see the other players dressing different every day. I’ve got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I’m really embarrassed.

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn’t know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now – basketball, football, soccer – for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

You’ve got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you’re able to complete it and do it the right way.

He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

Well maybe i’ll fall hard, something tough to break me, something sharp to rip into my insides and bleed out all that pain.

All of a sudden I’m in the major leagues and we’re traveling from town to town.

As the days went on, I didn’t mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them.

Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions.

Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are.

That was the easiest part of all. I couldn’t wait to get to the ballpark I’d be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that’s why the veterans liked me.

For example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.

But I didn’t think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that’s the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I’ll leave for other people to unscramble.

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures.

I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform.

To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.