I want my career to be judged by what I did on the field. I appreciate the honors.

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.

Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.

I believe that challenges can push us beyond what we might otherwise be able to accomplish.

I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

Own your truth.

The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts.

Standing in the rain outside the door of Percy’s old house, we seemed bound together not by blood and not by love but by a sense that the world and its works were hostile.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

You know those days when you get the mean reds?

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

Life is the elimination of what is dead.