I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.

You've got to set high standards for yourself.

When you're getting $2,000 a month in the minors, it's hard not to eat Taco Bell every day.

You can't listen to what people say about you. If you do, you're never going to get anywhere in life.

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

What's there to be nervous about? You just go out and play the game.

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

Pressure is only what you make of it and what you put on yourself.

I like to have fun, and the only way to have fun is to win.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.

Never allow anyone to convince you into believing that your weren't brought into this life to experience a life of massive success and unconditional happiness.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

A lot of my buddies enjoy the writing part or the studio part, and I love the live show part. That's the reason I got into all this, to play keg parties and bars. I still love playing live.

Fear not because God is with you.