The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

What looks as a dead and dark end can become a glowing and shimmering start only if one has the patience to keep trying with positivity in the mind...

Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it

You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her.

...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...

Woo! It's so cold, I think we may be twin sisters now," he said through rattling teeth.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.