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.

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.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.

In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.

May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again!

If possible avoid being a bubble for a bubble even the gentlest touch is fatal.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

It's hard to make me speechless.

In the soft and gentle arms of a mother's love, children can come to know the voice of the Lord.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.

I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.

When you commit to a WWE contract, you're committing to some serious time away from home.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this relate to them?' I'd be paralyzed.

The Cold War had gotten so bad that there wasnt a story anymore.

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.

As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.