I've been streaky throughout my career, but I've been trying to become a more consistent hitter.

I hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.

North Dakota is a great state. Everybody is real supportive up there. I couldn't ask for a better place to call home.

When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the guy who got the most out of his ability, not the guy who never fulfilled his potential.

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.

It's nice when you put in a lot of hard work and you're recognized and a few people appreciate what you've done.

It's so much easier when you've got guys on base and the whole offense is clicking.

I'm not one for a lot of media attention.

If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'

I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.

If I'm asked to play first, I should be ready. It's nice to be in the lineup, regardless of where you're at.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

There's always a source for humor.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last two years. The president's exact quote was: 'I ain't make none mistakes ever.'

Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.