When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.

Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it's free!

To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself'.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.

We're [Avocado League] trying to just urge people to add avocado into their diet. It's healthy and full of vitamins and minerals.

I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.

I don't want to be just a face. I want to go out there and prove something on the field.

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

The Glass has Shattered but the Cross Remains

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Without improving our mind there is no way to solve our human problems.

Innovations until now conceived by no one at all

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

Sexy is a girl who's comfortable with herself. Long legs are beautiful... and also a nice neck.