I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

Emotion doesn’t arise from the dreams, rather your deepest emotion orchestrates your dream.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

It is a rare goal that has only one path.

I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future.

Most people like hard work particularly when they're paying for it.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

What do you do if you're in the car and your girlfriend touches your crotch then asks you to remind her to get kitchen scissors?

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.

Put me up against Sarah Silverman and I could take her.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.