It's fun to be the guy everybody looks to.

I kept believing that, if I got my innings in, it would come. I just kept believing.

When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.

Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.

I have a medical history folder that's a lot thicker than most.

My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.

Some people tire me emotionally, not that they personally do anything to me, but their presence. Their presence sometimes is so heavy on the heart, and I just feel smothered by them.

It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.

I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless.