Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.

I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.

Every year I try to make adjustments and learn.

You play for the team, you don't play for the fans.

I know what my job is. I know what I've got to do. I've got to keep getting better.

My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.

My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.

I just have to prove to myself, I don't have to prove to fans.

People think the leadoff spot is a big deal. I tell people you're going to lead off the first inning, and after that, you can be a No. 4 hitter or No. 3 hitter.

I just go out there and try to help my teammates any way I can. They are on me a lot to be in the lineup and do stuff for the team, but sometimes it's just...frustrating.

I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit.

Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess, is my Freedom to Choose, my Freedom to Live, and my Freedom to be Happy.

People in your life leave you a rhyme, On leaving they leave a new footprint in the Sands of Time.

I've been with a beautiful girl from time to time.

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

I'm a terrible dancer.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.