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

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.

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.

My role is to set everything in motion.

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.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.

In a world hooked in "Start-ups"She was his final "Settle-down"-The Drenched Writer

Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

I was thinking it was worth the risk if it meant forever with my faery girlfriend.

Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.