If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.

I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

Work is not a drag for me. I like to get here early, hang out, catch up with the boys. I'll go in the cage and hit, do my exercises. I try to keep it fun and find ways to enjoy it.

You probably don't call home and say, 'Hi, mom. I am facing Pete Schourek tonight.' Names and stats don't do it. You have to do it out on the field.

You can’t fathom the alien mind.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.

He who strays discovers new paths.

If everyone catches the cold virus it just... might make you fall into Onew Condition for a while!

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.