"In a way, if we want to make the postseason, we feel like we have to win out. We have got some good games coming up, but we are going to have to buckle down and get the job done somehow."

“I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.”

“Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it's Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger's face into a life.”

Source : "No Time for Audiobooks: He’s on the Road to His Destiny" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2014.

“Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.”

“The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.”

Source : John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

“It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed.It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.”

Source : "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

“It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.”

“Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.”

“I want to keep things simple and keep my energy focused on moving forward.”