I'm not as good as I want to be.

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.

What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Bribes and boy bands. That’s all you need to be a babysitter.

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.