“Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.”

Suffering is overated.

When you have somebody that’s smart and you’re not so smart, to me that’s modern day slavery because you’re being dictated to.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world

There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.

I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following – but I’ll bet Lancelot had more.

Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

I’m half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you – my father taught me.

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.

I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.