Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.

Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

Art is too long, and life is too short.

You've got to believe in the possibilities. You've got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here's the big one. Believe in yourself.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?