I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

You can never fall in love with a team.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I just want to play baseball.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

Change is the end of something you know and the beginning of something else that you don't know. Something new that holds opportunities.

Because it happened in the past, doesn't mean it forgotten ...!!

Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?

"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.