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.

I hang in there all the time. I'm not afraid to be taken out. I think that's the biggest thing to do-just stay in there on the double play.

The power to heal the scars begins with hope.

Next to being shot at and missed nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Every man's disease is his personal property.

In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning.

Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working.

I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'

People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.