I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.

I do not believe that Donald Trump is a member of the Alt- right.

I have also seen [Adolf] Hitler upset when they had been having words. He was not immune from being bothered or upset by their relationship.

The spiritual path is not strewn with roses.

They're just beginning to change - Drug companies.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.