I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.
Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.
The crowd makes the ballgame.
I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.
What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.