We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

I just go out every day and try to work hard.

I'm excited about where I am right now.

You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.

I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

I never really worried about stats in the minor leagues. I was more concerned with getting better and bringing a positive attitude every day.

You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game.

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college.

I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.

I want to keep things simple and keep my energy focused on moving forward.

The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.And only the phoenix lives forever.

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

In every failure, there's the seed to even greater success. However, people waste their time complaining, instead of looking for the seed among the rubble of what was.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

Delete the negative accentuate the positive!

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.