Luis Gonzalez Quotations

We're getting big hits when we needed them the last couple of days,

My kids were tired of bringing posters to the game. They made those about a week ago.

Now, they're cleaning up their act and it's selling like crazy.

I don't know what I can say. You really can't sugarcoat it.

I always say I don't have the best skills, but I'm going to give it everything I've got. It's not always been pretty, but there's something to be said for guys that play in the league for a long time and know how to get the job done.

He's done a fantastic job behind the plate, ... But for him to step up there and hit a grand slam, that was big for us.

He was just effective enough to keep our hitters off balance all night.

This was a good series for us, ... We could have very easily taken all four. We have two months to go. We know where San Diego is, we know where the Dodgers are. We haven't had a good run yet, this was a good start for us.

I was an outfielder, and I was a huge Ken Griffey Jr. fan. In Little League, the team I played for was the Mariners, and I wore No. 24.

Jason Schmidt just has our number. He's one of the best pitchers in the league and he's just dominating against us.

I think since we are a veteran team we realize that so many players play this game and go through so many ups and downs that a lot of the guys don't ever get the opportunity to play in the playoffs or a World Series. So I feel very fortunate to have reached this accomplishment.

It definitely doesn't seem like there's one team really jumping out there to take the initiative to run away with this thing, which is good for us because we're behind San Diego. So we're just going to go out there and keep playing hard and hopefully we can get on one of those winning streaks that we haven't had all year.

I'm still trying to find some logic to it all.

I'm still in awe about it. I look at the list and see the names on it. I have all the respect in the world for all the former major league players. Nowadays I think the art of the double is kind of gone, because everybody counts on the home run. But for me it's an exclusive club I can be a part of.

I'm sure a lot of people were thinking that I couldn't play every day in one position. But here I have the chance, and I feel comfortable.

I'm here to compare his game to mine -- we're both lefties. I'm just going to hang out and watch him go about his business today.

The democratic process has passed the hardest test of all. The people of Paraguay have triumphed!

We just have to play better at home. We know that,

We've been outscored in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings maybe 100-2, it seems like. And when we get behind like that, it's tough. The hitters have to change their approach, the pitchers on the other team get to play around up there. I mean, they don't have to go right at you.

We all didn't play well today. We didn't make plays behind him when we had to and we didn't get hits. We didn't score runs. You can't win with zero runs.

Even though everything tells you they are not going to do well because of the team, we're very excited about the direction they're going in, with the manager and the ball team. We had some hesitation, but when we did our research, we feel the Marlins are here to stay in South Florida ... The bottom line is they're still a Major League Baseball team. There's only 30 of them.

I've been hitting (batting practice) with him the past couple of days and I'll be honest with you. I've been playing for a while and I've been in some good hitters' groups, but this guy is impressive for an 18-year-old. I couldn't hit a ball that far at 18 and I still can't right now at 38.

The worst thing is, ... is we're not getting All-Star Game questions.

They all pitched well. They all stepped up.

The violence has ended and so has the fear and persecution.

The situation is totally under control, ... We are going to be relentless in applying the law to all those who have violated the law and the constitution.

They've been awesome this whole series. They've taken us deep into games and all pitched well. They stepped up in this series.

They started to integrate Spanish lyrics with regular reggae dance-hall, so that became popular. And what happened is that music went to Puerto Rico.

It was a whole experience to prepare that vehicle to go out, ... because you knew that if something happened, you were definitely going to get it. We put as many sandbags as possible on the floor, hoping those sandbags might save your life.

It will be an interesting September, ... The hottest team in September is the team that will go on.

It's a real act of goodwill on the part of the government. The government will be recognizing the wishes of a large sector (of society).

I told those guys that you really don't see those yet on bubble gum cards on the backs. They count during the season. They can hit 20 or 30 during Spring Training and none of them count.

It just adds something else to my credentials, I guess.

It's sore a little bit, but I'm gonna do everything today. Batting practice, ground balls. I'm ready to go.

They can do whatever they want. I haven't done anything wrong.

The fans' emotions will help carry them through the layoff.

I just go up there looking to see something up in the zone, ... He's around the plate, that's where he has success from. You know you're going to get something to hit sooner than later.

I just have to learn to stay there -- I want to get out of the box so quick. You're in the middle of the order, and your job is to drive in runs, but it was an easy opportunity for me, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd probably do the same thing. I'd just try not to run out of the box so soon.

He's one of the best pitchers in the league. He's the guy no one likes to face.

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.

It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it's completely out of control!

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it,

In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted.