I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.

Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.

I hate the ballplayer who says, 'I did everything I could have possibly done.' Because if you didn't win it all, you obviously didn't do everything you could have done.

I have never used steroids. Never.

The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.

I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

I'm very tough on myself. I definitely look at the negative too much.

Don't cling to a mistake, just because you spent so much time making it.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

Lost in this young world, I'm just trying to navigate See the pie sliced, I'm just trying to grab a plate.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.

How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.

To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.

One thing we do well within evangelicalism is in thinking of Jesus as our friend. But He is also our King.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.