I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

If I love a song, I make it mine.

The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

Something that is loved is never lost.