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Those are three great players, ... You can feel good about your accomplishment when you're mentioned with those players. Hitting 40 homers is a great number that not many people get to.

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I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.

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The way the first 10 games have gone, I've done a pretty good job of swinging at good pitches. That shows in the lack of strikeouts. Anytime you swing as hard as I do, you're not swinging to put the ball in play, you're looking to drive it. Anytime you do that, you're going to swing and miss. But if I swing at better pitches, my whole game will be better.

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Maybe that's it. Either that or there was a flaw or defect in the baseball. I hit it hard but ... I don't know if I could take credit for that.

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It's not a perfect system. Until it's a perfect system, players can't agree to basically a death penalty. Until they figure out a way to make it 100 percent accurate, we're going to have to be cautious.

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I think Roger Clemens knows what he wants. If he's got any questions, we'll be happy to answer them. Hopefully, he's leaning this way ... but I'm not going to go over there and bend his ear for 2 12 weeks about coming to play for us.

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I have no idea what will happen. It's something my agent and I will sit down and talk about. I know I'm here for three more years.

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When the swelling goes down and the pain goes down, we'll see how it goes.

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What I like about this year compared to last year is that I really haven't had a lot of fluctuation from big highs to big lows, ... When you do that, your team can count on you pretty much every game to make a contribution.

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I'm still going to be playing baseball, still getting my work in. The team might miss me a little bit, but at the same time, when we get back, it will be like we've never left.

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We are still young, but at the same time we are experienced. Most people think of young as being inexperienced, and that's not the case here.

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Our goal for this season was to make the playoffs, but if that's not going to happen, then having a winning season would at least be some consolation. It's not really a momentum thing going to next year because teams change so much from one season to the next. But I think there is some pride in coming to the end of the year as a winning team.

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David's my best friend on the team, a great teammate, a great player. Everyone's going to miss him. I guess you can never have too much pitching, but it's tough to lose David.

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We've got four All-Stars in there. You can make a case for all of them. They're all playing really well.

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I've never even talked to him Daniels. I can't have much issue with a guy I've never even talked to. But I can say this We haven't won as much as we'd like to in the last few years, so maybe a change was needed.

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There's a lot of talent around the world. Anybody playing major league baseball, you look to your left there might be a player from Korea, you look to your right there might be a player from the Dominican Republic or Mexico.

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My biggest thing is I need to see a lot of pitches, which I did today. That's good. The more pitches you see, the better your timing is going to be. But it's going to be impossible to see enough pitches. No matter how many pitches you see, it's still going to be March 6.

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We'll have All-Stars two deep in the lineup, and then we'll also have a pitching staff full of All-Stars.

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It's a real honor to be included among the list of finalists, when you see the names that are there, ... Some of the guys who won the Hank Aaron Award in the past are thought of as some of the best players in the history of the game, so just to be included with those guys is really gratifying.

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I've noticed we've been going after hitters a lot more this year, and throwing more strikes, and it's shown in our success. It's been nice. Any time the pitching staff is doing that better and more consistently, there's a lot less pressure on the offense going in.

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I want to win more than anybody. You put us up against the rest of the world, and I'm going to want to win even more.

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When he gets hot, he can carry a team for a long time.

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The unfortunate thing is that I've been here three years and it seems like that at the end of three years, we're right where we started.

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He probably saved two or three runs. If he doesn't make that play, I think the game is ours.

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It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

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