I hate the word 'potential'-potential means you haven't gotten it done.

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.

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

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 wanted two girls, " she said. "You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people's children are too hard

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

I want to go about like the light-footed goats.

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.