You don't get old being stupid.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

To play a wrong note is insignificant

Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.

If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.

Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks you get a bit of rust.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.