Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

I'm still pinching myself. I am very grateful of the way things have gone.

I'm not out to prove anything to anybody.

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me.

I tried hockey, but it never stuck.

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.

I can do a little bit of everything, I'd like to think.

It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure.

I don't really like the limelight.

If your vision encourages and enables others to hope more, see more, act more, love more, and live more then you are a true pathfinder.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.

Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.

You may not be winning, but this doesn't mean you are losing

There's nothing more heart-breaking than watching your children suffer.