When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.

What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.

I'm not as good as I want to be.

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

With one kiss, my life had been altered. It would follow a different path now. One where a woman owned my heart.

I was an hungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger and ye took me in.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I’m in a position where I can actually become one.

It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.

Matches don't come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals

All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

The next time you drop my jacket, I'll drop you!

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.