I always said I wanted to be the best at what I could do. I feel like I can improve.

I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game, obviously it beats you up both mentally and physically.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.

I have a few goals that I kind of keep to myself.

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

I'm looking to get better, and anything that will help me accomplish that, I'm all ears.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.

The one kiss that was stolen, was given in a lie.

We are doing a disservice to our country when we keep on pushing the messages of miracles, signs and wonders.

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.