Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

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.

Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

Workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

I work like a gardener.

For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.

Secrets tear you apart.