I've got numbers in my head that I'd like to keep to myself. If I get them or pass them, only I will know.

Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.

You have to believe in yourself every day.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

Hustle is just playing the game right.

For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team.

Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

My role is to set everything in motion.

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.

Jealousy is like wood ants, it will nibble away, until there's nothing left.

Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.