You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.
I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.
Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.
Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.
You can't see the bat hit the ball if you're generating any bat speed. If you're just laying the bat through the strike zone, sure, maybe.
Your ability will get you the job, but you also need to have age on your side. So if you started your career at 21, you have an advantage over others in your batch who started at, say, 24.
If you go to Wall Street, there is someone from Harvard, Stanford, etc, who relate to each other by the batch they studied in, the dorm they lived in, and so on.
I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
Your film is a hit, you bathe in champagne; it flops, a single malt lessens the pain.
The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.
