I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

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.

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .

Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.