You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

I come to play everyday.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

I just want to play baseball.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

I try to do things the right way.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.

I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.

My teammates are the best.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

Negativity doesn't help me.

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.

The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.

Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused.

What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are vampire states. Vampires because they suck the economic vitality out of their people. Government is the problem in Africa.

Love is friendship set to music.

It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Whenever I do my own makeup, I usually only do foundation, bronzer, and mascara.

Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.

I'm insatiably curious.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what wee need to do now.

If I know I have to memorize lines, I'm really gonna try to memorize lines. It's hard for me sometimes, because somebody wrote these words and you're trying really hard to get them the way they said it.

The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.

I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.

My family has always supported me a thousand percent. My sister once sold her jewelry so I could pay for gas money to get up to New York for a show. And that's amazing. But you get too much of that, you start depending on it.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Any time you sign a big contract, you get in those later years, the expectations are high to play at a high level.

In the midst of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.