[Clayton Kershaw ] is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.

I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to play hard. But for some guys it just looks easier. For me, it's not that natural.

I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

I don't really like the spotlight.

You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.

It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

The first step to accomplishing the impossible is to achieve it in your mind.

My advice is to develop a good regimen and stick to it!

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.

Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.

Trump has said that he wants to remove the tax deductibility of interest. If he can do that, fine. But I hope that Trump knows that it's not the President that sets tax policy. It's Congress.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.