It doesn't do to eat too much before a performance.

As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'

That's what interests me about film: directing.

Actors usually have a lot in common with kids.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

I think the quicker we tell young girls who dream of playing professionally that they should believe in themselves, the more prepared they will be for the world of pro sport.

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.