When you're close to your family, you want to be close to them.

My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

I just need to come to the park every day thinking something good is going to happen to me and hoping today is going to be the day.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

Don't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and use the chanceTo return to innocence.That's not the beginning of the endThat's the return to yourselfThe return to innocence.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.

I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.

I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.