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.

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.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.

That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.

The beast way of avoiding mistakes is doing nothing

I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.

Acceptance comes through understanding.