I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?

I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.

I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

Observe everything silently, like a little bird! This invites the angels of wisdom!

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.