I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.