I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.

Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.

Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn’t he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny?

It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

The Son of God became man for our salvation but only in Mary and through Mary.

I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.