You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year.

Sometimes it's more fun to compete with your friends, because you can talk a little trash with them.

It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.

I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.

If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.

Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

I miss basketball every now and then.

I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

The chance to go to the postseason, it's hard to pass up.

Faith means be faithfulness to God.

Lies aren't just the things we tell -- they're the lives we lead.

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.