In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat" (23).

The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue.

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.

I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that’s my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians