It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

I remember my rookie hazing. It wasnt fun.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

I'm definitely not a "Fast and a Furious" guy.

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Then I defy you, stars!

The real satire starts when I’m shockingly mocked, not mockingly shocked.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

The wind and the sun are free.

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.

I’m not going to kill you, Nora. I don’t kill people who are important to me. And you top the list.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.