Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

You can never fall in love with a team.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I just want to play baseball.

We should be blessings to others as believers

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player'.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.