"we must take care of our families wherever we find them."

“You don't wait 30 minutes before a game to tell a guy he's traded.”

“I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings”

“When you think New York, you think Yankees.”

Source : "The answer man". Interview with Steve Springer, www.espn.com.au. March 24, 2010.

“When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.”

“Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.”

“Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.”

Source : "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

“I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper. I feel like part of that is because I'm always on deadline. I've been a freelancer my entire career and, at any given time, I have several deadlines for all sorts of things whether it's some magazine piece or ad copywriting or anything. Obviously, people with deadlines keep journals all the time but, for me, the idea of doing more writing is never appealing. It's why I never blog.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.”