Yeah, I'm a vegetarian - but still, some things are just nasty. I like salads. But sometimes, they get too creative. I like regular food, just no meat in it.

I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."

Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack.

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Miguel and Justin, the two biggest guys on the team, welcomed me right away and once the cool kids in school like you, it's easy to get along.

A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.

Take it from me, an authority on expertise: You can't trust experts.

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

Austrailia, Sydney Might run up in Disney Out in LA with Lindsay.