I don't really like the limelight.

I'm still pinching myself. I am very grateful of the way things have gone.

I'm not out to prove anything to anybody.

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me.

I tried hockey, but it never stuck.

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.

I can do a little bit of everything, I'd like to think.

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure.

To believe all you have to do is look at the sky.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.