I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way.

I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.

I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?

I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.

People who actually have good advice seldom give it voluntarily, instead others seek them out for it. They do not shove it down people's throats just to boost their exaggerated sense of importance.

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.

I feel it is important to point out that individuals can make a difference, that things that seem impossible one day might suddenly shift into a possibility the next day.

From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.