You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.

Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

You cannot slay the illusion of the victim until you face it and call it truth

When everything has to be right something isn't.

When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

Align with nature... Magic happens

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

When I was in film school I was learning more theory than practice.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.