Everyone knows the game is about the players.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

Sharing our ideas with others is a way of showing what is important to us. We are sending out signals about ourselves as we highlight what we value and care about.

I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me the safest place is out on a limb.

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.

If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.

I discovered there are some messages, left by other artists. I've just started to draw, say, to share the visions with them, or to start my own. Which will probably be transformed soon by others.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.