Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

I think it's awesome. I miss it so much. That ocean has something on me.

I hope I can always be counted on to get a hit or get a guy in-to be an even keel in the lineup.

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.

The College World Series, that's the end-all deal as a college player. To get a chance to play in the World Series and win it, that was surreal.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.

I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

The way we relate with people is the same way we relate with God

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar.

The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious. I'm fighting this war against all that because pop music, in my opinion, should be fun.

The only disability in life is having a bad attitude