I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.

Wishes and wants do not transform a person

I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop.

Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

The reality is that when Sinn Fein gets into these talks, there will be no more options for armed republicanism, for the IRA.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.