I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.

I think it's awesome. I miss it so much. That ocean has something on me.

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

I hope I can always be counted on to get a hit or get a guy in-to be an even keel in the lineup.

The College World Series, that's the end-all deal as a college player. To get a chance to play in the World Series and win it, that was surreal.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.

I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.

I have learned in my journey of faith that, the closer I am walking with God, the more likely the devil will be working to make me stumble.

In dreams begins responsibility.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.