My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

I just need to come to the park every day thinking something good is going to happen to me and hoping today is going to be the day.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try.

[B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.

Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.

My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.