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.

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.

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.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

The male gender remembers only the things that entertain them.

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

The signs of the times.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Meeting important emotional needs creates the feeling of love, but thoughtfulness keeps it alive.

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.