I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

I have a lot of interests.

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.

Be happy for what you have not for what you should have.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

What keeps me going is goals.

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

Critical thinking is what leads to the next breakthroughs in any area.

Winning the title itself is the most rewarding. That is the goal of every boxers.