I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.

I think it's awesome. I miss it so much. That ocean has something on me.

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

I hope I can always be counted on to get a hit or get a guy in-to be an even keel in the lineup.

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.

The College World Series, that's the end-all deal as a college player. To get a chance to play in the World Series and win it, that was surreal.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

Always make time to eat. Always. There’s enough starving children in the world without adding to their number

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

if one characteristic of Lyndon Johnson was a boundless ambition, another was a willingness, on behalf of that ambition, to make efforts that were also without bounds.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

If your mother still drives you to school, you are not a gangster, pull your pants up!

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.