You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

She could be a fire hazard. Maybe we should remove her from the ship before she spontaneously combusts.

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.

Pause and remember - It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'