God has forgiven everything that I've ever done. If someone does something to hurt my family or me, I can always forgive them. It keeps hate and anger out of my heart.

I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.

If I can be a good person and help a few non-believers or even help people that are believers but need a little help along the way, I think that's a job that I take very seriously.

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.