The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

I take positives out of negatives all the time.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

I want to win a World Series. I couldn't care less about MVP.

When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13, 14? I'm 23, but that's a little young even for me.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve.

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

I teach people how to become limitless.

What if obese people couldn't get married?

If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.

We tend to find what we look for in other people.

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.