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.

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.

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.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

The promise of a hopeful future is motivation for the pursuit of my dreams.

Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place.

Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.

Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.