All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

You've got to set high standards for yourself.

I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.

When you're getting $2,000 a month in the minors, it's hard not to eat Taco Bell every day.

You can't listen to what people say about you. If you do, you're never going to get anywhere in life.

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting.

What's there to be nervous about? You just go out and play the game.

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

Pressure is only what you make of it and what you put on yourself.

I like to have fun, and the only way to have fun is to win.

We can escape any hardship with hope in our heart.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.

I eat meat, the rarer the better.

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.