When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard.

I don't like to play slow or softly. I like to play hard. Always.

I'm confident, but not so confident that I'm cocky.

I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last.

I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.

I love hitting-that's my favorite part of the game.

I have to get better, but I can't change the way I play.

I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

2004 has to be my year. No more excuses.

It is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.