You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.

Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

You have to believe in yourself every day.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

Hustle is just playing the game right.

For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team.

Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

My role is to set everything in motion.

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

I just need you and some sunsets.

Very often people have a very limited way of thinking.

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

I said it was simple. Not easy.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Make the man within your living ideal.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.