“The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.”

I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

I can relate to anyone. I can hang out with stoners, skaters, surfers, stockbrokers, lawyers, athletes, rappers. I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

I’m OK being the veteran, but I’m still just a kid.

I can count my friends on one hand.

I’m so secure in myself I couldn’t care less what people think of me.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we’ll always be connected in people’s minds.

I just write mechanical things.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.

There’s a part of me that wants to go streak and run outside and jump around and go swim in the ocean and do everything. The other part of me wants to bear down and repeat this kind of performance next year and in the years to come.

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

We’re all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads.

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

The reason we get overwhelmed is that we’re attached to a certain result or taht we want to achieve a certain result or that we to achieve a certain goal.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

I can’t stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.

Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

And to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.