Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

I had the greatest year of my career in 2007. It's a year that I'm very proud of.

The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.

I'm never happy with my performance.

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

You need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out of church, honey. The church kicked God out of church.

You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.

The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and breathtakingly chauvinistic claim that Israel's 'miraculous' military victories over much-stronger enemies proved that He was ever on Zion's side.