If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

Begin to learn.

In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.

Life is full of chances, don't miss yours today.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.