Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

If someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future

If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?

May the bridges I burn light the way

We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.

None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

Sever the edge between before and after.