I love Minnesota, and I'd love to play my whole career here.

If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence.

I'm always alright, as long as I've got [a bat].

You've got to hit 30 before you hit 40.

I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.

I believe I'm a middle-of-the-order hitter capable of driving in runs. If I stay healthy, I'll get back to that level.

A first-place team? You're always excited to become a part of that.

There is no substitute for Hard Work.

​Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality.

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

I can say.. that I never said that... we never met and this never happen... How?(Good question, the answer I will leave it for later)

Darkness cannot stand before the brilliant light of the Son of the Living God.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.