A lot of people just thought I'd be a .260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and let me learn the game a little bit.'

If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?

It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.

I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard.

When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team.

I think the thing I'm most excited about is the fact that I was able to, for the most part, change pitchers' mindsets about what kind of hitter I am.

I think if everyone is clean, then who cares about how you're tested?

One day, you're 11 games, 12 games out, and the next day you're in first!

If you can live with less of what you have. You can be more of who you are.

The place was silent and - aware.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world.

A true buddy is a person who thinks that you'll be a fantastic egg although he is aware that you are somewhat cracked.

Change the boundaries of business.

I'm way too focused to let anything stop me.

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

The four cardinal points are three: South and North.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.