I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

When you think positive, good things happen.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

Racism is kinda old. For real.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

I'm pretty sure that China is way bigger than the Dominican.

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

Get this through your head — you are not responsible for other people's happiness.

If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

Sleep is forbidden. When I'm working, I'm a machine and I don't look at other people like they are human.

The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.

Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example.