Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

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.

But finally, once in an age, there is a blink. And in that blink, you can be. And in that blink, I can be.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.

My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there.