If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

When you think positive, good things happen.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

Racism is kinda old. For real.

I'm pretty sure that China is way bigger than the Dominican.

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units, ' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

We did a really cool video for this song [Milquetoast] with Alex Winter from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure fame. He's an extremely intelligent guy. Butch Vig also did a mix for The Crow movie.

What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession.

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?