As professionals we have a responsibility of providing a good show for the fans. Getting hits and home runs is what they want to see.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

You should seek approval from yourself.

I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image.

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.