Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

I have no problem with the arbitration process.

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.

I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Every Mistake Teach Us a Lesson

In the end she just said..... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free!

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

God has a part,and we have a part. God will not do our part and we can't do His part

There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.