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.

We spent a lot of money on some players.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits.

I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

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.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

I feel young every day.

The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs.

My personal opinion about the world is that it's homogenized.

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.'

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.

You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.

I found out about Jonathan Winters' death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashian's divorce before she did.

You need to step out to build before God could bless what you are building.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

I just love where I am right now in my career.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar you pretend its not there.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.