If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.

Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well.

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.

Patience is underscored with forgiveness.

I am not weak and can control my mind really well".

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

No one can motivate you to do anything. You motivate yourself, based on information you receive and how directly you can relate it to your own potential achievement.

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

Lessons learned in the home, last the longest.

As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters