Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.

You've got to play for whoever you play for.

I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.

I don't have pressure on me. I just put pressure on myself to play hard every day.

The fans here, they've been unbelievable. You've got to play hard for them.

I've got to keep working hard and doing what I'm doing.

I'm just going to try to hit the ball hard. If it's going out of the park, that'll be OK.

I don't want last season to be as good as I get.

I played because I loved it. It was incredible when they told me they were going to sign me and they were going to give me money.

I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.

I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

Nothing better than this moments of new year, to say : goodbye last day, last month, last year. Do i confused to say goodbye facebook? goodbye virtual world?

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

A vow is a snare for sin

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.