I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.

What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

I'm not as good as I want to be.

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

No dream is too big to come true.You are born to manifest the glory of God on earth.

Be healthy, hearty and happy.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

Attain the unattainable.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

Survival protocol says follow water out, and that's exactly what we're going to do.

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

Where do you think all these attacks on conservative media are coming from? They're not coming from the Democrats exclusively.