I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.

What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

I'm not as good as I want to be.

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

Jesus is not just "faith", it´s a true reality, but we just don´t get it.

Be grateful for life. Show gratitude to others, whether it’s verbally or energetically, it has the same effect.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.