I just need to come to the park every day thinking something good is going to happen to me and hoping today is going to be the day.

My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

Regardless of whether we are required to purchase medical insurance, know that we can only buy real health insurance in the produce section of the local supermarket.

I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

Nice Kerrick was scarier than Mean Kerrick.

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.