My teammates are the best.

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.

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored

Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this - at all.

Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.