Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

I'm a person who likes to develop. I like for people to see me grow.

The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.