“Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.”

“You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.”

“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.”

“There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them and they don't know how to use it.”

“Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.”