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.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

I lost my ability to will things to happen.

Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'

I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.

Never judge a book by its cover

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.

That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

A lovely nook of forest scenery or a grand rock like a beautiful woman depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low upon a sense of purity and of romance.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

A partner is someone who makes you more than you are, simply by being by your side.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.

The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to probably does his or her best to spend less. It is a human behavior that is as revealing as any other about human nature, but only if it can be released from the social straitjacket of nicety.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.