Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

I’m very proud of the Rome episode of ‚No Reservations‘ because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You’re never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I just want to keep writing music.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Football is all about fans.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.