If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'

I hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.

North Dakota is a great state. Everybody is real supportive up there. I couldn't ask for a better place to call home.

When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the guy who got the most out of his ability, not the guy who never fulfilled his potential.

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.

It's nice when you put in a lot of hard work and you're recognized and a few people appreciate what you've done.

It's so much easier when you've got guys on base and the whole offense is clicking.

I'm not one for a lot of media attention.

I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.

If I'm asked to play first, I should be ready. It's nice to be in the lineup, regardless of where you're at.

I've been streaky throughout my career, but I've been trying to become a more consistent hitter.

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest.

I am a learner, my desire is to be a good listener and to have a teachable spirit in my life time.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

Always challenge the old ways.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.