I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.

I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game, obviously it beats you up both mentally and physically.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.

I have a few goals that I kind of keep to myself.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

I'm looking to get better, and anything that will help me accomplish that, I'm all ears.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

I always said I wanted to be the best at what I could do. I feel like I can improve.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not.

Watching dance isn't about picking up moves. It's about noting the relationships between motion and space and rhythm to absorb a greater concept

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly.