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

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.

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.

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

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

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.

There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused.

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

Treat the past as a school.

Even writers need relief from words.

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.