I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but when I'm in the box, it's just me and the pitcher, and I get zoned in.

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.

If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.

I'm not comfortable being that outgoing guy. That's not me. I never used to talk to anybody.

My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death.

You can't change your game based on where you're playing.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.

A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.

A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat.

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.