“I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.”

As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky.

All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn’t think I was ready. I wasn’t comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball

I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

Writing is like anything – baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance.