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.

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.

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.

My faith is what makes me strong. Without faith, there are only low times.

The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.