Please don't quote me.

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.

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.

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

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.

True art awakens theExtraordinaryOvation

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.

There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.