What's there to be nervous about? You just go out and play the game.

You've got to set high standards for yourself.

I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.

When you're getting $2,000 a month in the minors, it's hard not to eat Taco Bell every day.

You can't listen to what people say about you. If you do, you're never going to get anywhere in life.

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

Pressure is only what you make of it and what you put on yourself.

I like to have fun, and the only way to have fun is to win.

If I only looked at what I've lost, I'd never be able to see what I have.

I don't even know my own phone number.

I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.

It's funny because I consider myself a musical scavenger. What that means to me is that I usually avoid feeding on the fresh meat. I kinda go for the meat that's kinda been forgot for a while.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.