I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.

I just want to become a great leadoff hitter.

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow.

Every year, we have 365 chances to begin a new lifetime.

I will learn by screwing up.

Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

Let me extend that generosity to myself.