October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

To do things you’ve never done before, you have to do things you’ve never done before.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I don’t like to lose, and that isn’t so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.