I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.

What do you think of allthis, darlin’? Will you be my soul mate?

My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend torepeat them.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

Life is not a journey, it is a destination

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.

We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.