I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.
We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time. '
I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.
The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.