I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.

You've got to play for whoever you play for.

I don't have pressure on me. I just put pressure on myself to play hard every day.

The fans here, they've been unbelievable. You've got to play hard for them.

I've got to keep working hard and doing what I'm doing.

I'm just going to try to hit the ball hard. If it's going out of the park, that'll be OK.

I don't want last season to be as good as I get.

I played because I loved it. It was incredible when they told me they were going to sign me and they were going to give me money.

I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.

Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.

I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.

Situations spin out of control because care was not taken to carefully manage reality through desires.

I think she's afraid to even hug me now. It's my fault, but I miss it, Andrew. I miss it so much it aches sometimes, you

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

What I've got to live up to, is being myself. If I do that, the rest will take care of itself.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.