The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.

I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day.

I take a lot of pitches. Some guys hate to do that.

Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

I'm not cocky. But I'm very confident.

I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.

I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

As you get old, you live and learn.

I just have to be myself, and not worry about everyone looking at me and watching.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.

Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.