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

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

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

I just write mechanical things.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

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 can count my friends on one hand.

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

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.

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

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

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

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

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.

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

Long-term sustaining growth is a minimum expectation for us.

I knew I was going to do a country album one day. But I was just trying to figure out for the life of me, what we were going to do to make it different, unique.

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!