I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

I take positives out of negatives all the time.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

I want to win a World Series. I couldn't care less about MVP.

When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13, 14? I'm 23, but that's a little young even for me.

I hate beyond hate.

It's easy to forget that anything is possible with these guys. That there really are no limits.

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

You don't want to be conscious of everything.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

Marketing has taken such a complete shift, thanks to the internet.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.