"I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays."

"I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element."

"Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing."

"It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling."

"I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction."

"And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives."

"I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations."

"I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show."