Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

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.

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.

Life is based on leverage. The more you know how to leverage life, the more successful you will become.

The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

The last time a straight man worked in the fashion industry, we got a fanny pack.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.

Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.