As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.

I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of doubles.

I felt both parents at my side no matter what I did.

The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.

I've gone through adversity most guys don't have to face.

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.

There are two forces at work in the world: the power of light and the power of darkness.

You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.

We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.

Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

Rocks are space, and space is illusion.

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.