My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

You can never fall in love with a team.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I just want to play baseball.

You can actually recreate your world with the Word of the Creator in your mouth.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.