Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

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.

Believe me, Nóra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

Never stray from the Way.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?