If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.

I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of doubles.

I felt both parents at my side no matter what I did.

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.

I've gone through adversity most guys don't have to face.

I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.

I am in the world to change the world

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.