I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

Going to a new team is like going to a new high school. Nobody knows you. It's a chance to rebuild your image.

It's going to be tough (winning the MVP Award). I'm not really considered a media darling.

When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.

People don't need to know what Albert Belle is thinking. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, and that's what's made me a better person.

Back in 1987 when they drafted me. The Indians were the only team interested in taking a chance on Albert Belle, and I made the most of it. Hopefully, they got as much from me as I got from them.

I look back over my career and I almost pissed it away. I got a second chance and I've made the most of my opportunity. I play every game like it's the last game of my career.

I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.

I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change?

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.

Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

And more importantly - what we have chosen to do

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.

It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.