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

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.

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

I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.

God's word will produce with your level of understanding. The much you can understand it, the more wisdom you are privileged to have.

With nowhere to go, we have everywhere else to go.

He could not fit in my imagination and I was not fit for his Real and the conflict between imagination and real sadly made us apart

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221

Even the smartest and most successful of people will experience lower self-confidence occasionally, but the difference is that they deliberately shift out of it and refuse to stay there.

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.