My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.