“If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.”

I guess the first thing I should do is thank everybody who made this day necessary.

Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator.

There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em.

80 percent of the balls that don’t reach the hole, don’t go in.

I guess I’ve got a smart wife.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Pitching always beats batting – and vice-versa.

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

We were over-whelming underdogs.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they’d do the same for you.

The game is supposed to be fun. If you had a bad day, don’t worry. You can’t expect to get a hit every game.

If everything is perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow. Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

Nobody’s life is perfect, and each individual will have their own struggles and stipulations.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Start believing that life is perfect, and time is life’s best friend.

Your life doesn’t need to be perfectly curated.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

You are not happy because you believe everything needs to happen right now but you forget everything happens with perfect timing.