Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.
I know what my job is. I know what I've got to do. I've got to keep getting better.
I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.
Every year I try to make adjustments and learn.
I just go out there and try to help my teammates any way I can. They are on me a lot to be in the lineup and do stuff for the team, but sometimes it's just. . . frustrating.
My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.
You play for the team, you don't play for the fans.
A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.
There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs. "
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. . . . If the Sun and its retinue of worlds is only one system among many, then many other systems will be like ours: home to life. Indeed, to the extent that this is true, we should be prepared for the possibility that, even in the Milky Way galaxy, billions of planets may be carpeted by the dirty, nasty business known as life.
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.