When I was playing, it would be whatever role I wanted. Now it's whatever they ask me to do, which I kind of like better.

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.

I believe we could both maintain growth and increase, both in quality and quantity

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love

I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.