By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

We have all grown wiser.

The mirror had no power. The mirror was just a piece of silvered glass

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

No concept is a carrier of life.

Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

Don't ever forget where God found you.

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.