I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

We hope to receive what we long for.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.