I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

Treat Your Business like a Romance"With Passion

Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.