People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

I'm going to go out there and be who I am, and if you don't like it, then watch somebody else.

Next year I want to be better than this season, and the year after that, better than the year before.

I don' really care what people think. I don't really have to prove anything to anybody. I just have to prove stuff to my teammates.

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

I don't like losing at anything. Why should I?

I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.

Just because somebody swings one way and I swing another way doesn't mean he's better than me or I'm better than him ... Does my swing get hits? Yes.

I hang in there all the time. I'm not afraid to be taken out. I think that's the biggest thing to do-just stay in there on the double play.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Don't believe everything you hear today

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

I like to say I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I'm a Christ-o-crat.