It's more or less just winning games at this point. If you win games, it doesn't matter who you're playing — at least you give yourself a chance. That's all we're trying to do right now.

250

Not too many people can reach center field in that park. Not too many big men can [go] opposite field like that either. Forty-eight [the number of home runs Howard hit last season in the Minors] is a lot no matter where you hit them.

249

There are something like 1,000 rights that accrue to married couples under state law.

236

There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.

230

Right now I don't think a whole lot takes me by surprise. It's nice always to be playing for something.

187

It's fun, man. All you can do at this point is play hard. This is one of those things that not a lot of people experience. You have to go out there and have fun and see what happens.

173

I think he got a couple hits against us. He almost hit a couple out of the ballpark. I was like, 'You [aren't] supposed to use it against us. Wait until the next series.' But now I have a whole gang of bats for him. He can use it a game today, tomorrow, whenever, as long as he keeps getting doubles and triples.

169

I picked up a lot of games in the standings. To go to a team that's only a couple of games out in the division and leading the wild card, that's great.

139

I picked up a few games [in the standings]. It feels good to go to a place where you know you have a chance to go to the postseason.

116

IVF is not as successful as we would like it. On average, only one in five or one in six of all the embryos that we generate in the IVF lab has the potential to go to full-term delivery as a baby.

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