There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Amongst all the colours in this multicoloured world, even jet black has its reserved place.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Little pitchers have wide ears.

Today it’s economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.'