Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.

You have to believe in yourself every day.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

Hustle is just playing the game right.

For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team.

Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

My role is to set everything in motion.

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

Don’t let your disease become your identity.

If you call upon the Gods and they answer, who is there to oppose or to challenge the integrity of your Path?

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

I do have the power. I can decide for myself what I want, even if the thought stresses me out.

I may drive in a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver ... (but) if I were never to drive again, I have had a great career.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.