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I grew up watching Pedroia play.

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to.

I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow.

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.