I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

I just need to come to the park every day thinking something good is going to happen to me and hoping today is going to be the day.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

A Sunrise is God's way of saying, "Let's start again.

From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.