“I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I’d been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.”

It’s not like I’m some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field.

I need to have perspective. That’s one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.

I think I’m aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can’t wait to experience that.

I’m not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I’m not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

When I’m doing well, it’s like I’m in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It’s very peaceful.

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.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?

Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets.

I’ve had to fight for roles and I’ve lost a hundred roles, but ‘Smoking’ and ‘Smith’ were phone calls. That’s the dream.

People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what’s deeper.