I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything.

Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.