I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.
I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.
The only way I can't hit. 300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.
When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?