I like to be against the odds.

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

I don't sign for white people.

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

Once you produce a product and it goes out into the world, whether that's to a newswire or an agency or whatever, you don't have control over it.

Plant the seed, set the target, live your life.

Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.