If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.

Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.

You have to believe in yourself every day.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

Hustle is just playing the game right.

For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team.

Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

My role is to set everything in motion.

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

I'm a mix; I'm sure some of my Canadian friends find me very American, both in person and on the page.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.