I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.

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.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

What I have written, I have written.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.