You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow.

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.

I just want to become a great leadoff hitter.

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

Donneven, Bettaquit and Mmmhmmmm

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.