They were chanting my name, but I don't know why. My name is on the back of my uniform. So, it's nice to know they can read.

When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues.

If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.

Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!

I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.

I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform.

One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.

I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.

Theres a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasnt a lot of fun.

I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well.

Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.

The ultimate way to reduce stress is find the cause and melt it away with love.

One can find traces of every life in each life.

When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

When I turned 18, I skipped my party to take my girlfriend on a road trip. It turned out to be an amazing birthday.

When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.