I FEEL like GUYS, girls, whatever it is, you just come out hoping to make the best RECORD. You just try to have a conversation and just create what you've talked about. Whatever you FIND to fit the beat at the time, what the person is down for, wherever the beat takes you towards.

I stand on stage HOPING to give GOOD ENERGY to the audience, but if I cannot give good energy anymore, I will have to leave RIGHT AWAY.

Youth is the period in which a man can be HOPELESS. The end of every episode is the end of the WORLD. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the SOUL survives its adventures, that great INSPIRATION comes to the middle-aged.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a BREAKING ball down and AWAY or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and STAY alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's GOING to make. And if he doesn't, then you WALK.

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and PERHAPS an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep TRYING to find EXACTLY what I WANT.

Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the LATIN Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El MOROCCO, Toots Shor's - his preferred DRINK was waiting when he walked through the door. Reporters waited at his locker for monosyllabic bons mots. Boys clustered by the PLAYERS' GATE, hoping to touch him.

We were just HOPING 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete FLOP. Selling a MILLION RECORDS wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.

Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and HOPING to inspire people to fulfill those OPPORTUNITIES, and to WANT more, and to want BETTER, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.

At the end of my trial, I was rather HOPING the judge would SEND me to Australia for the REST of my LIFE.

I have been BLESSED with a bunch of great kids, GRANDCHILDREN, and daughters-in-law. It's been a great LIFE. I know I am probably in the fourth quarter, but I am HOPING for triple overtime.

In open range fires it is about PICKING a spot and hoping it is the right LOCATION. At the head of the fire you have to WORRY about wind and humidity and a NUMBER of other factors.

Ultimately, you've GOT to answer your critics on the TRACK, and I am very MUCH hoping 8.41m is acceptable for PEOPLE.

I was always the kid dribbling the ball on the sidelines, hoping someone would PICK me. I'd go with my older brother to the gym or PARK, and when I went out there, I'd pass the ball so I could get PICKED again.

It's ALWAYS obvious to me when SOMEONE is looking at me with an IDEA of who I am and HOPING that that's the person I'm GOING to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

I ALWAYS had an ability to listen and give PEOPLE the space to open up and express themselves, and I was HOPING it would TRANSLATE on TV.