I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

I'm still pinching myself. I am very grateful of the way things have gone.

I'm not out to prove anything to anybody.

Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me.

I tried hockey, but it never stuck.

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.

I can do a little bit of everything, I'd like to think.

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure.

I don't really like the limelight.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

I suppose that I am ambitious.

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I'll start with the Beatles, and I'll bookend it with Soundgarden.