I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

You are beyond worth and your potential to change is in your next thought.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.