Being able to help, being able to go out there every five games, is definitely something I was waiting for.

It's a great feeling for me just to put my uniform on and be part of my team.

I just wanted to be like my dad, Jesus. He was a good shortstop.

I don't talk. I just let what I do talk for myself.

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

I just go out there and do what I do and try and hit my spots.

I have to drink a lot of fluids, try not to dehydrate, and keep stretching.

Dreams can come true, but you have to go for it.

To see all the fans getting into it, that's pretty special.

When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.

My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going.

It is impossible not to live miserably if one chooses to frequently focus on one's disappointments, mistakes, failures, weaknesses, difficulties, and people's negative opinions.

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again.

I've won at every level.

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.

Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.