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

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'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.

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by

But the sun will rise the day after tomorrowA millennium without us silences our last echoTo tiny fragments even our plastics are reducedIn Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed

Do not wait to know you are drying before you start living.

Living with thieves, it would be a matter of moments before they picked the lock, but she certainly was not going to make it easy for them.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.

Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.

In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.

Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?