If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.

Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer

My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.

Those who deal with customers on a regular basis should be circumspect whenever they open their “traps.” It is better not to say anything at all than to say, and later, pay!

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship this pressure produces diamonds.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.

I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.