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

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.

Words are more thoughts

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.

I always try to show my human side to my colleagues and to the whole circuit. More than anything because we are all on the same train, it is part of our work.

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.