It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.

I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.

You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those rare occasions when violence really doesn't solve anything.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

But I don't know what guys I like because I haven't been out with enough to know. I'm still learning.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Approach your career from this standpoint and you will have a very different career. You will be successful.

Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.