I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Never let your dreams go away.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Please don't quote me.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

In the modern city life, if you don't have money, you simply don't have life.

You can be RELIGIOUS without being SPIRITUAL or You can be SPIRITUAL without being RELIGIOUS or Both It all depends on your Philosophy.

Books are the reality you get to choose

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!

It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.

Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.