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

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.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.

Though the mills of God grind slowly yet they grind exceeding small Though with patience He stands waiting with exactness grinds he all.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm', I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos.

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.