A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not.

I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."

Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack.

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Miguel and Justin, the two biggest guys on the team, welcomed me right away and once the cool kids in school like you, it's easy to get along.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

I'm still working out. It keeps me feeling good about things.

Every morning is a big, bright, window that opens just for you to fill your life with the light of joy.

Daily grace and power of the Holy Spirit must be desired for living rightly and humbly.

Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult.

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

Everything means something.

I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.