Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

If I'm honest with you, you might not like me for a day or two. But if I lie to you, you're going to hate me forever.

Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure.

I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.

I don't say anything. One of the reporters asked me in the scrum in there, and I said, no, I didn't say anything to anybody. I can only hurt them right now. I cannot help them.

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.

When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.

I went in there only once, as a sane man, and I came out...well, I came out like this. But you, once you come out of there, you'll be a king!

We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

Songs are more powerful than books.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people's lives, but if someone doesn't leap in and answer the call to pray, it won't happen.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.