We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.