“I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in th...” — Kris Kristofferson Quote

I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

You always want to play the game the right way, especially with the big names that have come before us. You want to live up to the expectations of being a baseball player at UCLA.

Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.