I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?
I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat me down and said, 'we didn't raise a quitter - you're going back out. ' I made the team and everything happened from there.
Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.
The faster you work, the better off you're going to be.
I'm pretty patient since I'm big into hunting.
To get a save in the World Series is the reason I can't stop smiling.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.
The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.