I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.

I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to play hard. But for some guys it just looks easier. For me, it's not that natural.

I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

I don't really like the spotlight.

You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.

It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

If I ever go into a coma, one of you has to promise to come by occasionally and tweeze my unibrow.

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

You can't be human alone.

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.