I guess the rules aren't for everyone.

You can never fall in love with a team.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I just want to play baseball.

Anyone who is dreaming of a beautiful future is living in a wonderful world.

Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.

I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

As Americans, we do love punishment.