Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.

You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

I am committing suicide by cigarette, ” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks.

Often our thoughts, choices and actions are not aligned to reach our desired goals and we prefer to call it destiny.

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

I'm the author of my own misery.

In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.