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

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'm not as good as I want to be.

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

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.

May Love Reign In All Universes andPeace Within Each One Us

Jesus taught in parables for a reason.

Don’t love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

It's better to die free than live life in a cage.

Running is still running. It doesn't matter if it's a physical move from one place to another or if it's to within yourself.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

God is a good choice to lean on. He has a proven record of faithfulness to those who commit their lives to Him.

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique.