My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.

Wonderful life, life live to inspired other people.

His strength kept me moving forward, and it was also tearing me apart.

Helping yourself is a privilege. Helping others is an honor.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.