I just want to play baseball.

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.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

Compromise is such an integral part of being a human being. You're compromising in every decision you make.