One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Never let your dreams go away.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Please don't quote me.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Success is determined by how little time you have to worry whether others are criticizing you, while being too focused to address them if they are.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

Why kill two birds with one stone? I go for the whole nestI am not satisfied with my work unless someone’s a bloody mess

You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

Don't evaluate yourself, don't evaluate others. Just keep going after it.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.