My role is to set everything in motion.

Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.

You have to believe in yourself every day.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

Hustle is just playing the game right.

For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team.

Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

No ruby slippers here, just a lot of supernatural jackassess.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.

Never give in, never back down.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.