I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I don't play for records.

People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.

Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.

If they don't know the Lord, I encourage them to search for and open their hearts and their eyes. If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to heaven and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible. I want to make sure that those people out there feel the same. At the end of the day as long as I glorify him and those 45,000 people know who I represent out there every time I step out on the field, that's what it's about. It's about representing God.