“I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last.”

But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits.

He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

I’m not perfect. Nobody’s perfect.

No more excuses about being young.

Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher.

2004 has to be my year. No more excuses.

He threw hard, but a good fastball.

My only worry was that he didn’t throw me a sinker.

I work hard on my defense.

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence,

I love hitting-that’s my favorite part of the game.

I’m an immigrant myself.

I don’t like to play slow or softly.

You feel that you can hit any pitch.

I’m confident, but not so confident that I’m cocky.

It’s something I take pride in, but it’s nothing that I want to brag about. It’s part of my game.

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.