I'm not out to prove anything to anybody.

I'm still pinching myself. I am very grateful of the way things have gone.

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me.

I tried hockey, but it never stuck.

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.

I can do a little bit of everything, I'd like to think.

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure.

I don't really like the limelight.

I sit back up and try to banish such thoughts from my mind. They're stickier than I expect.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.

I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.

Battles are followed by years of famine.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

I have very high standards for myself and my career.