I just have to be confident and actually try to do less, not try to do more.

When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

I just want to take advantage of every day that I'm in the lineup.

I think everybody gets their recognition sometime down the road, and I have never been one to seek it. Besides, it has been that way throughout my career, especially in college.

Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.

The first step to finding your path to success is not to alter your dreams to fit reality, but to alter your reality to fit your dreams.

As long as you believe that you can achieve and progress in it you will succeed

... the scarlet thread, the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began...

I have a motto that if something isn’t blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.