Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

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.

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 have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.

Fear is very powerful, almost as powerful as love.

New hope, new adventure.

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

There's something about a guy who admits he's a jerk that makes him forgiveable.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.