American Quotes

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you only cheat yourself.

In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stage in my career, when there is an opportunity, albeit a small one, of being on the team, what a great way to possibly end my career.

I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no.

I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.

But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not.

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.