I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

There are no separations—only connections. There are no deaths—only transformations.

You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.