My dad is my hitting coach. When I need help, I go to him.

In this lineup, anywhere I hit, I don't care. I always go out there and swing the bat the same way.

You never stop learning. You learn something new every day.

I wish to improve my power, but not in a home run way.

2010 was my best season so far but I think I can get better at everything.

I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.

I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.

I want to hit line droves. I want to hit my doubles, my singles, get on base.

I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.

Love is for life

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.