You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

Play this game like the 8 year old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show! Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from!

I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.

After losing LaRoche, I have to step up a little bit. I have to do what I need to do.

If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

We're the team to beat. Everybody knows that.

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Baseball needs more superstars.

I want my teammates to know I have their backs.

Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !

When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

America has been another name for opportunity.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.