You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

I just go out every day and try to work hard.

I'm excited about where I am right now.

I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

I never really worried about stats in the minor leagues. I was more concerned with getting better and bringing a positive attitude every day.

You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game.

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college.

I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.

I want to keep things simple and keep my energy focused on moving forward.

When wounds are healed by love, The scars are beautiful.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!