Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

I take positives out of negatives all the time.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

I want to win a World Series. I couldn't care less about MVP.

When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13, 14? I'm 23, but that's a little young even for me.

Dreams go by opposites I was once told.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.

Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

My love's more richer than my tongue.