I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.

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.

I just want to play baseball.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

Pro-life includes improving life after birth.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Creativity healed me. I don't know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing.

It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.