I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine.

Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.

I believe that everything you work at and want in life is a great challenge.

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

I don't believe a player is ever a finished product.

Truthfulness is a luxury, perhaps the greatest, and let me assure you, the most expensive luxury in our life—and happy the man who has been able to enjoy it from his very child hood.

To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.