When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

See the ball; hit the ball.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

I'm not really a food connoisseur.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.