Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

If I drag it up from the bottom of the river, if I dig deep into that muddy floor and pull it up, even if I get most of it wrong, is it mine to tell?

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–” “I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.