When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

I'm going to go out there and be who I am, and if you don't like it, then watch somebody else.

Next year I want to be better than this season, and the year after that, better than the year before.

I don' really care what people think. I don't really have to prove anything to anybody. I just have to prove stuff to my teammates.

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

I don't like losing at anything. Why should I?

I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.

Just because somebody swings one way and I swing another way doesn't mean he's better than me or I'm better than him ... Does my swing get hits? Yes.

To a lot of children, school is currently mostly a place to learn what you aren’t any good at.

Ethics change with technology.

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function as a normal human being.

I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Self-respect is the best of all.

If someone says, 'No, no, no, the earth is round!', they think this person is an extremist. That's what it's like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC.

When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.