I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in...

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

Politics for me is not Ambition but a Mission.

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?