In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.
I love Minnesota, and I'd love to play my whole career here.
I'm always alright, as long as I've got [a bat].
I feel like I'm strong enough that I don't have to do anything to turn on the ball. When I do that-when I'm ready to take the ball up the middle, when I'm willing to go the other way-that's when I can turn on the ball.
If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence.
You've got to hit 30 before you hit 40.
I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.
I think people often underestimate the power of consumers. But I equally say that consumers are like shock troops: You can't keep them agitated and motivated and committed and active forever. There are pulses where they switch on to a particular issue, and just inevitably they switch off.
To fill a world with. . . religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.