I expect perfection from myself.

Play this game like the 8 year old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show! Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from!

I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.

After losing LaRoche, I have to step up a little bit. I have to do what I need to do.

If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

We're the team to beat. Everybody knows that.

You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Baseball needs more superstars.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on returning to camp.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.