I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.

I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard.

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

I don't like to play slow or softly. I like to play hard. Always.

I'm confident, but not so confident that I'm cocky.

I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last.

I love hitting-that's my favorite part of the game.

I have to get better, but I can't change the way I play.

I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

2004 has to be my year. No more excuses.

It was really hard to stay positive. And that's normally a talent of mine.

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

They always try to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys without brains.

I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

My mom always used to say, "You can't say I love you before you can say I." And I think that sort of makes sense.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.