Going to a new team is like going to a new high school. Nobody knows you. It's a chance to rebuild your image.

I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.

I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

It's going to be tough (winning the MVP Award). I'm not really considered a media darling.

When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.

People don't need to know what Albert Belle is thinking. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, and that's what's made me a better person.

Back in 1987 when they drafted me. The Indians were the only team interested in taking a chance on Albert Belle, and I made the most of it. Hopefully, they got as much from me as I got from them.

I look back over my career and I almost pissed it away. I got a second chance and I've made the most of my opportunity. I play every game like it's the last game of my career.

I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.

I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change?

Happiness isn’t something you work toward, the same way misery isn’t something you work toward.

Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once.

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

Whuf added the dragon.

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.