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.

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

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.

Sacrifices by believers should not be done out of pity

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

Winning friends begins with friendliness.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

Is it crazy to say that I dont often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if its 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!

We go after unlawful activities.

The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.