My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but when I'm in the box, it's just me and the pitcher, and I get zoned in.

Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.

If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.

I'm not comfortable being that outgoing guy. That's not me. I never used to talk to anybody.

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death.

You can't change your game based on where you're playing.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

My mother was an incredibly loving mother.

When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.

at last no one decided And no one knocked And no one jumped up And no one opened And there stood no one And no one entered And no one said: welcome And no one answered: at last

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.