I have a glove. I'll play anywhere.

I'm just trying to play my best and have fun.

I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

You have to concentrate on the swing.

I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better.

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.

Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either.

When you've got guys on base, you have to hit. I concentrate on getting it done.

Success should not only be measured by what you get but by the stewardship of your duty.

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.

My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

One inch of love is an inch of ashes.

I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.

The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.