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

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.

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.

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.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.

Tranq'd by your own gun,"Lev says."How pathetic.

Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.

Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?