Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

You should seek approval from yourself.

I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.