I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

Sometimes it's more fun to compete with your friends, because you can talk a little trash with them.

It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.

I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.

If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.

Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

I miss basketball every now and then.

You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year.

If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

The chance to go to the postseason, it's hard to pass up.

There is no longer waiting for anyone, but for death.

Never Fall In Love !! Just Rise In Love !!

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

I'm a big fan of Israel and frankly a strong prime minister is a strong Israel

One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.

Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?