I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of doubles.

Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.

I felt both parents at my side no matter what I did.

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.

I've gone through adversity most guys don't have to face.

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.

I once asked him why he smoked the world's most expensive cigarette, and he told me it was because he was a man of wealth and taste, at least according to Mick Jagger.

Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.

There is no way I could have predicted the amazing reception and support that 'Quantico' has received this season or even the way that I have been welcomed into the fold here in America.

Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.

Evil is like a Vampire. When you take arms against it and destroy it, you find in the end that you are evil too-that it is living on your own actions.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

It isn’t a matter of getting the body you want, it’s a matter of doing the most you can with the body you have.

It could reach up and grab the moon.

What do you mean it wasn't anything? Didn't the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose to Lissa on sleeping with Aaron

I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it’s soothing. A cool kiss