We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Love as much as you can, for as long as you can, and as best as you can.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.

There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.