I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.

Be respectful. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Respect the lowest rank and the highest rank and you'll never get in trouble.

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.

I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.

There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice. Reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for.

You can have fun, respect the game and also play it hard. When you have that combination, you're going to put yourself in a position to be successful.

Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it.

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.

Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.

It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

In putting off what one has to do one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.