I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Anyway, You need to focus only on you.

For how long will you continue to deal with the pain that comes with the grudges in your heart?

... As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

Put forth the necessary concentrated effort and you will be wonderfully helped form sources unknown to you.

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.