I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Do not allow hate to take root in your heart.

Can’t you feel it?”She could. No question about it. But saying yes felt like a giant leap for them. For her.“Be brave for me.

I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies