Time

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

You can't take it with you, but you can have a hell of a time putting off the departure.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

I don't think I ever lost a marathon. I just ran out of time.

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

It took me 20 years to realize that I did have the ability to win the race. Winning is not about the time. It's about everything coming together. Winning is about not being afraid of losing.

When I was playing, I could play ball all day, hit the gym at night, and go out at night. But moving around wears you out.

I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the last 20 years.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

It is what we think and do at this moment that really creates the next moment.

I've had to approach things a little differently as I got older. I'm going to be 37 this year and every year that I've come to spring training, I've tried to get on the same page.

I just take each day as it comes.