You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

Work is not a drag for me. I like to get here early, hang out, catch up with the boys. I'll go in the cage and hit, do my exercises. I try to keep it fun and find ways to enjoy it.

You probably don't call home and say, 'Hi, mom. I am facing Pete Schourek tonight.' Names and stats don't do it. You have to do it out on the field.

. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .

Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

Whenever I meet a pretty girl, the first thing I look for is intelligence; because if she doesn't have that, then she’s mine.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

You have endorsements, everyone from Meg Whitman to the neocon John Negroponte and others who are all saying, you know, we're with Hillary [Clinton] now.

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals.

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.