I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

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.

A lion does not take orders from sheep.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

Everything begins with a thought, and thoughts are turned into plans, and plans into reality.

Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.