Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.

Be respectful. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Respect the lowest rank and the highest rank and you'll never get in trouble.

I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.

I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.

There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice. Reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for.

You can have fun, respect the game and also play it hard. When you have that combination, you're going to put yourself in a position to be successful.

Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it.

I've done a lot of special things in this game, and for none of that to be considered clutch, it's an injustice.

Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve it.

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon.

Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.

So many people have bad intentions, so many girls want to hang out [with me] to be someone. I weed those people out of my life. I call them hungry tigers.

The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.

It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.