In my heart and mind, I know I can hit anybody. I'm always relaxed. It's hard to explain. It's like playing with my kids. It feels natural.

I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

I don't hate what I love. I love what I love and I hate what I hate.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

I can do a reddish-brown or brown lip, but not a bright red. I just don't look good in it. Over the years you learn certain things that don't look good on you, and that's one of them for me.

I'm fairly competitive.

I'm The Legend Killer, Shawn! Why? 'Cause I kill Legends!

[on Kendrick Lamar] The new king of the West Coast.