I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.

I just want to become a great leadoff hitter.

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow.

Magical since Birth.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you.

I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

In my opinion, people that go against the election are going against America.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.