The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.
When you're losing, you see what your team is made of.
Our team goal is pretty simple. . . basically prepare ourselves to play for nine innings every day, every series, and against every opponent. For me individually, it's more of just trying to play my role the best I can every day.
You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.
A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans
Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.
I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.
Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.