Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

See the ball; hit the ball.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone

I bend but I do not break.

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue.

A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead.