I felt both parents at my side no matter what I did.

Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.

I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of doubles.

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.

I've gone through adversity most guys don't have to face.

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.

Plant the seed now, enjoy the fruit later.

When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts

...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Love must have wings to fly away from love And to fly back again.

Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!