The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

Sometimes, Manny is taking a nap, and you woke up the baby. There's not a better retaliation, something like that. Manny's one of the best at that.

I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.

The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.

Edgar found a way to get the ball where nobody was standing.

The fans were phenomenal. It sounded like Sox Nation out there.

Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

Figuring out who you are and being true to yourself is not just important, but it is critical to being authentic.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.

It's not the outer appearance that matters, it's what's inside.

The only reason to write is from love.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms