Quotes from Mike Lupica

You can't live your life fixed on what you never had...You start doing that, it will eat away at your heart.

As you go through life, you're gonna find out what I found, sometimes the hard way, that you're never too old to learn, that you can teach an old dog new tricks.

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

don't give up till the buzzer sounds -coach joey

I can't say 'why me,' Brady. That's one of the big no-can-do's. Because if I do that now that bad stuff has happened to me, why didn't I say it about all the amazing stuff that happened to me before?

If you don't take the shot...you'll never know whether it would have gone in or not.

The ones who tell you not to fight are the ones you should fear the most.

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

If there are real angels in the world," Michael said to his brother, "how come they're never around when we need them?

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is .

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

But that is the funny thing about dreams...Just when you are sure you have a good one, an even better one comes along.

You can handle anything anybody throws at you

He imagined himself as a sprinter now, felt his arms and legs pumping, thought of the old Cuban sprinter his father used to tell him about. Juan something? No, no. Juantarena. Alberto Juantarena. His father said it was like watching a god run. And his father, the old fool, wasn't even Cuban, he was Dominican. The only Dominican who wanted to talk about track stars instead of baseball.

The two of them shook hands the regular way. The old-school way.

Alice in Wonderland

I never look for help when I'm the one who loaded the bases.

It's a foul if he calls a foul.

You gotta be prepared for something, pal. No matter how much you think you're doing the right thing, life can still take a wrong turn on you.

But maybe you could get better at missing things—and people—with enough practice.

Nick said. "Failing at school, failing at baseball…" The last part just came out, one last part of this he couldn't stop if he'd tried: "… failing at being your son." For the second time that day, Nick ran.

It doesn't matter how old or young you are: The truth will always catch up with you eventually...Best thing is to own the truth from the start, whether you like it or not.