If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but when I'm in the box, it's just me and the pitcher, and I get zoned in.

Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.

I'm not comfortable being that outgoing guy. That's not me. I never used to talk to anybody.

My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death.

You can't change your game based on where you're playing.

A person with a victim complex loses on constant complaints and objections

Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.

Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

You cannot squelch what's happening at the moment - you cannot put a lid on it and squash it down.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.