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

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

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.

Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.

There are unlimited possibilities in life.

There is no such thing as a person without brilliance.

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

Isn't one man's truth another man's lie?

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.

Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!