Top 406 Quotes & Sayings by Dominican Authors - Page 5
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Being on the road is hard, and just being able to come home, and have our fans rally behind us, it's good for a change.
My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me would instead look up to God. I am nothing without Him. Everything I do in life and in baseball is to glorify Him.
I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.
I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.
I play hard for my ballclub. Whatever uniform I put on, I'm going to bleed and die.
My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.
My mom came to America when I was six years old, and I didn't live with them until I was ten. They worked really hard in factories, and my dad as a taxi driver, to be able to afford visas for my sister and I.
You don't make it to the Final Four two years in a row by mistake.
I own my sexuality, and I don't try to hide it.
Every season I am inspired by women.
When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.
What I really want is consistency - to keep working, for God to keep blessing me with all the amazing people in my life, to keep making good music, and to keep representing females out there.
Like I tell everybody, we have to win games, forget about the future, and live in the moment.
I watched 'Dexter,' but it ended in a really weird way. I think it's going to start over again because he's a new character; he's like a fisherman.
The fans know and the Cardinals know that I want to be a Cardinal for my whole career. I love this city. The way that this city has embraced me and my family.
A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.
I stress a lot, sometimes.
My faith always kept me focused and strong.
I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.
Every time you put on an Oriole uniform, it's always a great blessing, and you always want that opportunity to put that on.
I grew up with very little. I remember vividly using buckets of water to shower.
I want to win. I don't want to spend the rest of my career on a last-place team. That's not the kind of player I feel like I am.
'Oh, Daddy,' was a remake of the Ritchie Valens' song 'Oh Donna,' and I really like that one because it's a story of a pregnant woman who was dumped by her baby daddy, but she was always waiting for him. It's a sweet-and-sour situation.
In order to advance in this world, you need to have respect for yourself.
Obviously, getting traded halfway through the year is always tough. New faces, new teammates, guys you played against but don't know on a personal level.
It's always an adjustment period when you are with a new team. Things don't necessarily click how you want them to.
Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.
In baseball, nothing surprises me. I understand this is a business.
My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.
I feel like you always learn different things from different teams.
I'm always optimistic and grateful for every opportunity I get.
The culture of the Dominican Republic definitely influenced me. We enjoy music in this crazy way; we celebrate absolutely everything.
I got to work with Sarah Michelle Gellar, and that's the thing that you dream of.
As a little girl, I was in the church chorus.
I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.
I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
I've been doing this since I was a kid. I'm always going to play the game with a smile on my face, blowing bubbles, sunflower seeds, whatever it is. That's just who I am.
I can go 0-for-5, I can go 5-for-5, I'm going to be the same guy. I'm a happy guy, people have to deal with it.
I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.
I'm proud to be a Padre. At the end of the day, this is where I wanted to be, and I'm very happy to be here.
I don't have too much time to spend with my family. But when I have that time, I put everything into that. Nothing else. I spend all that time with them.
Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.
I used to have imaginary friends.
Would be a dream to play with family.
I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5 job at the time. I managed an instrument room at a hospital in the Bronx.
It feels amazing to see all of my hard work finally pay off.
I don't want to be like those guys that, two or three years into their contract, they do really good, and then they don't care.
When things go well, people like everything you do. When things don't go well, people look for 1,001 explanations, and they don't understand you're a human being.
For me, I'm very happy in Atlanta.
I just try to enjoy the game, play with a smile on my face, and be the best I can be.
When you get a chance to get a W, that's the most important thing.
My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
Parents are sometimes a little more passionate about their sons and daughters.
My biggest struggle was probably having to move from the Dominican to the United States to go to high school. Moving to Michigan, the weather, the language, I didn't speak English at all. That adjustment for me was difficult at the beginning.
What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.
Baltimore will always have a piece of my heart.
I'm playing in the World Series. Can't get any better than this.
I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.
When you're on the road, you don't have any fan support, so you and your teammates always have to stick together.
I have so much passion for the game.