My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.

I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day.

The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

I take a lot of pitches. Some guys hate to do that.

Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

I'm not cocky. But I'm very confident.

I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.

I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.

As you get old, you live and learn.

I just have to be myself, and not worry about everyone looking at me and watching.

My father was a patient father. He was so patient that when he once saw a sign that read ‘Patient Entrance’ at the Welt Foot Hospital, he drove his automobile incredibly slow.

The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment.

Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance

What I say and what I'm really experiencing - those universes are very different.

Pass the bone, kid pass the bone, Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones

Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.