I may not hit 50, 40 or 30 home runs, but I can do the little things like moving runners over that don't show up in the box score.

Father and son games - that was the best day. We'd be dressed at 6 o'clock in the morning. The game would be at 7 o'clock at night... And we'd play at, like, 5.

All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'

Kids always think about being the MVP.

I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.

I just mind my business and do what I have to do to get ready for the baseball season.

I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

I've always wanted to be on a winning team, be competitive and have something to shoot for in October. It's never been a money situation.

Hard work doesn't start during the game. Hard work starts the night before.

I want to be the best player I can be.

I like to see my name in the box score.

If you hit .200 and you win or .300 and you win, it's all the same. Just so you win.

I'll never be that guy who's going to yell and scream at people.

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

The civil service are risk averse.

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

Psephology isn't a hate crime.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.