It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.

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.

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.

Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

If you are persistent, you will succeed

On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

All human progress is preceded by new questions