I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

...he was not so much a human as a civil war.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

The brain is where most people really screw up.