I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see be your son.

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

How the hell can you play here?

Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love.

He, who for Love has undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousand-fold than one, Who never loved at all.