I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

I'm pretty sure that China is way bigger than the Dominican.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

When you think positive, good things happen.

Racism is kinda old. For real.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.