For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice.

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.