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

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'm not as good as I want to be.

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

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 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.

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