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

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.

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.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.

Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.

It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law

I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.