I hope to play for the Red Sox a long time.

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

I'm going to go out there and be who I am, and if you don't like it, then watch somebody else.

Next year I want to be better than this season, and the year after that, better than the year before.

I don' really care what people think. I don't really have to prove anything to anybody. I just have to prove stuff to my teammates.

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

I don't like losing at anything. Why should I?

I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.

Just because somebody swings one way and I swing another way doesn't mean he's better than me or I'm better than him ... Does my swing get hits? Yes.

​Failure is the Shoe that I Wear. I can't Walk a Step without it.

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

If you stop eating donutes you will live 3 years longer.It's just 3 more years that you want a donut. < . ) < .

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Only I can turn this country around.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.