I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

They will look at my career as the guy who gave it all but at the same time did it with integrity. That's what we all aim for - the respect of the game as well as the honesty that's played a part of that game.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.