To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

You can either take it as a way to motivate yourself or be happy with what you've got.

A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.

Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

I'm not a big city guy...there's too many people, there's too much traffic.

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.

True love doesn't grow on you, feed on you, drain you and spoil your heart. It nourishes, waters the soul and intensifies in absenses long and short.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

I think most important, you need to have the compassion and caring for helping to protect vulnerable people.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.