I'm not as good as I want to be.

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

I'm not as good as I want to be.

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.