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

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.

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.

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

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.

Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering

I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared.Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked.

Sharing your story is a courageous step towards healing your own heart.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.

One night I'd had some beers, and then I Googled myself and spent the night in tears.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.