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

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.

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.

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 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.

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.

I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can.

Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.