I know what my job is. I know what I've got to do. I've got to keep getting better.

I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.

Every year I try to make adjustments and learn.

You play for the team, you don't play for the fans.

My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.

My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.

Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.

I just have to prove to myself, I don't have to prove to fans.

People think the leadoff spot is a big deal. I tell people you're going to lead off the first inning, and after that, you can be a No. 4 hitter or No. 3 hitter.

I just go out there and try to help my teammates any way I can. They are on me a lot to be in the lineup and do stuff for the team, but sometimes it's just...frustrating.

I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit.

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

You will be excellently executed.

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To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.