I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it.

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.

Pessimism doesn’t change the reality

Imagination is a sacred place.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!