I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.

I'm not in the big leagues just because I'm cute.

If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.

There was always something missing in Montreal.

Every time I feel mad or something, I run somewhere. It gets my frustrations away. I run and run and run.

I believe I have a responsibility that goes along with the money I make. I can help a lot of people.

Because I want to have my arm in good shape, I need to have my legs in good shape. Without a leg, there is no arm.

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.