I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

Has your life ever been so messed up that you wondered how you would survive another day?

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.

Celebrating Christmas without Christ is like celebrating George Washington's birthday without mentioning the first president.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.