I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

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.

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'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 dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

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