Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

I don't sign for white people.

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you.

Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail.I couldn't help but smile.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.