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

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.

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.

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

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.

Every connection you create either helps or hurts you

The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

China has other problems, but the devaluation has allowed them to make it impossible for us to compete.

...He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling.

I am everything I am today, because of my past.

Real Madrid fans have to wear sunglasses while watching their team because this star-studded team of diamonds is just astonishing.

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.