I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

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 try to find something to fill our void. But it is only God who can fill the void.

I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away

I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn't like me.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go?

That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.