I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.

I wouldn't play in Minnesota unless my career was at an end and I had to go to Minnesota to play the game.

I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.

When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.

I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.

Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it.

With faith, I know that everything will be taken care of. Even the difficult times become learning experiences to help make my faith stronger.

I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.

When I rely on my faith, I know God wants to reward and bless me but not because of some great act that I did but because of who He is.

Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.

In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.

Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.