You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period.

Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.

I have never used steroids. Period.

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

I have fallen behind time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead confuses me.

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Not everything needs to be fixed

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.