I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

You can never fall in love with a team.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I just want to play baseball.

The victory is not only the pathway of celebration but also to take the greater degree of responsibility for those who were victimised.

Life is a vacation to enjoy the beauty of life.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

I already have a drink. Do you think he'd buy me mozzarella sticks?

Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.