I just want to take advantage of every day that I'm in the lineup.

When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

I just have to be confident and actually try to do less, not try to do more.

They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

I think everybody gets their recognition sometime down the road, and I have never been one to seek it. Besides, it has been that way throughout my career, especially in college.

Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Not only is this not love I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philosophy . . .the secret of Christianity is found . . . in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving.

What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities?

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.

You have to write badly in order to write well.