Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.

I hate the ballplayer who says, 'I did everything I could have possibly done.' Because if you didn't win it all, you obviously didn't do everything you could have done.

I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.

I have never used steroids. Never.

The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.

I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

I'm very tough on myself. I definitely look at the negative too much.

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

I think family is so important.

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret