"I have a great faith in God and Jesus."

"Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream."

"Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion."

"I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies."

"I appreciate and enjoy my age."

"In the depths of adversity, gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless."

"There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in."