Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

Life is too short to worry about anything

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.

Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.

For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.

I don't even take aspirin.

This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.

Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.