Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too "cool" or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

I just write mechanical things.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

It's your life. What are you going to do about it?

She was as necessary as the sun to me

When you find something you genuinely enjoy, don't let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don't feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. Celebrate them.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

I have proposed I would not add a penny to the debt and [Donald Trump] plans would add $5 trillion to the debt.

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

Outwork the bullshit. That means nothing can rattle you when your conditions are set. And the way you set those conditions is by working damn hard.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.