"There's still a lot of baseball left in Sosa, he's only had one bad year and has a lot to offer the Dominican team."

"I believe that part of what the World Classic did was remind people that baseball talent comes from all over the world. There are a lot of people playing this game."

"There are no favorites in baseball. You can do it in basketball or hockey or any other sport, but in baseball there are no favorites. Our country expects a winning team and we are OK with that. We are going to go round-by-round, but we don't want to let our country down."

"If you're going to get hurt, you're going to get hurt, whether you're in spring training or the World Baseball Classic. But I want everybody to understand, we're not going out there only trying to win and forgetting about our players. We have a responsibility to the organizations that are allowing the players to play, and we're also going to try to get them ready for the regular season."

"They always say the most important pitch in baseball is Strike 1. It's even more important now."

"I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting."

"It was an awesome experience. I would go again tomorrow."

"I believe this is the biggest recognition I'm going to get for the rest of my life in my country. Coming from a country with so many good players and so many coaches and being chosen to do this, nothing will match this."

"We left the fear at home."

"I think it's going to be a terrific atmosphere. The four teams here are going to have good baseball."

"It was full of blood. He only had about 10 more pitches before he was done, so we made the change. We appreciate his effort."

"We're anxious to face Cuba. We've never played them before in this type of competition."

"I don't think that, with the level of competition of every team, you need to have your 'A' team out there for nine innings every day."

"I can see why they are dominating international competition."

"The crowd did help us. We have a big Dominican community here. But I think the game was so good, the players weren't even paying attention to the fans. They were focused on the game."

"We can feel the confidence he brings."

"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way."

"Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them."

"Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked."

"If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave."

"Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday."

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."

"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be."

"The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving."

"Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God."

"You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people."

"It gives me the ability to be totally independent,"

"It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it"

"I think the stocks are going to do better, because everyone is going to realize it is not a disaster, and maybe the worst is behind us,"

"Leo brings a very broad and deep level of experience to Kelley Blue Book that stretches across the automotive industry -- from optimizing dealership operations to maximizing the opportunities of the Internet and e-commerce. He's coming on board to lead an aggressive growth strategy across multiple units."

"It feels good. There's a rush in getting to go down and fight fire in different country you've never seen before, or in a different area."

"Lying is a terrible thing in any circumstances,"

"I think they had some fun and played, but I don't know what you make of that. The conditions were tough and we've got some guys hurt. ... Both teams made enough mistakes to lose 10 times."

"You can't make anything out of that. The conditions were tough and we've got a lot of guys hurt. Both teams made enough mistakes to lose 10 times. Everybody's got a lot of work to do."

"It hope it settles down and we get some good training in."

"There was some trucker guy and he said, 'How's the horses?' ... And I said, 'The horses are OK, but I'm about to run out of fuel.' So he let me siphon five gallons out of his truck. I don't know his name."

"Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything."

"To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful."

"Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book."

"A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults."

"Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed."

"When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!"

"We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble."

"Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery."

"Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?"

"A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy."

"On paper they should win. They are bigger, faster and stronger, ... They should win, but it doesn't always work out that way. We'll see."

"There's a lot of guys on this team who could be captains. There's going to be far more leaders than two if we're going to be any good."

"For a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you."