Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Take time to thank everyone who has helped you along the way.

Friends can create our most cherished memories.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide!

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.

Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.