Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.

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.

A life without sweets is not much worth living.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

The beating of my heart stops when your gone, my heart herts when your voise is not speaking. This proves my love for you so never leave me.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

Life always brings you what you need.

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

Love is putting yourself second