They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

I just have to be confident and actually try to do less, not try to do more.

I just want to take advantage of every day that I'm in the lineup.

I think everybody gets their recognition sometime down the road, and I have never been one to seek it. Besides, it has been that way throughout my career, especially in college.

Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.

Lies don't end relationships the truth does.

It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be.

I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

That's one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans - maybe I'll get in trouble again - they don't want to help anybody.

Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar