To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.

I wouldn't play in Minnesota unless my career was at an end and I had to go to Minnesota to play the game.

I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.

When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.

I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.

Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it.

With faith, I know that everything will be taken care of. Even the difficult times become learning experiences to help make my faith stronger.

I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.

When I rely on my faith, I know God wants to reward and bless me but not because of some great act that I did but because of who He is.

Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

Never give up! And write for yourself first and foremost.

What kind of fool makes a deal with a man named wolf?

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

I watch a lot of cartoons. I watch a lot of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Phineas and Ferb."

Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.