Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

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.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

You can't conquer reality by running away from it.

Keep an open heart To allow the world Lovingly and faithfully To come in.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.