Work is not a drag for me. I like to get here early, hang out, catch up with the boys. I'll go in the cage and hit, do my exercises. I try to keep it fun and find ways to enjoy it.

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.

I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

You probably don't call home and say, 'Hi, mom. I am facing Pete Schourek tonight.' Names and stats don't do it. You have to do it out on the field.

Music is my higher power

Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather a catcher of thoughts.

Handsome and brilliantly rich

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.