I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.
I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.
We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.
I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games.
I hate the ballplayer who says, 'I did everything I could have possibly done. ' Because if you didn't win it all, you obviously didn't do everything you could have done.
I'm very tough on myself. I definitely look at the negative too much.
Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect. More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.