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

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.

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

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.

You are consciousness within your body and mind

There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

I almost never shoot people.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.