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 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.

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

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.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.