Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

I just want to become a great leadoff hitter.

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow.

A child is child.

It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

You just gotta do what you gotta do whatcha can.

I often don't read reviews.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.