It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see be your son.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

How the hell can you play here?

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.

I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.

You can not serve two masters..but you can make both fight for you.

It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.

I am a goofy person, really. That's where my energy goes, that's how I live my life. The goof gene is very strong inside me, really.

Off with the old and on with the new and never a second's thought between.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.

I think that just talking about what guys shouldn’t do, we got to also make sure that you can do your part to do whatever you can do to make, to try to make sure it doesn’t happen.

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.