I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

Do not forget duty. But choose love when you can.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know...I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive!

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.