Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

Never let your dreams go away.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Please don't quote me.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us.

I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

I think for me the best thing about being a woman is that I get credit for things I should be doing anyway.

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.