My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.

What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

We have no bats and no arms that will overpower teams, so we need to play smart baseball and not make any mistakes on defense.

He will sign. He's going to play professional baseball.

All I want to do is play baseball.