If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

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.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

Ted Cruz will point Americans back to the principles established by our Constitution enabling you to live free.