I don't play for records.

I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

Though, ' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.

Being emotional is normal? all part of the job.

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

I'm excited to be seen as sexy. But not slutty.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

I'm always jacked up. I'm pumped up. It's just, I love life and I'm having fun.

I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.