Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."

Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack.

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Miguel and Justin, the two biggest guys on the team, welcomed me right away and once the cool kids in school like you, it's easy to get along.

A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

I'm still working out. It keeps me feeling good about things.

Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.

To everybody who didn't believe in me, thank you. Because of you, I had to find my own way, and I did.

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

I think Saturday may be Latin for "stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night.

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.