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

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 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 tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.