A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Never let your dreams go away.

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Please don't quote me.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Let our scars fall in love.

You know nothing about my grief", said Anastasia. " So speak nothing of it.

If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.

Give your best to the challenges. And what you get will be even better.

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

He that runs may read.