The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.

I have no problem with the arbitration process.

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.

I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn't even know it.

Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dignity!

The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.