I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

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.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing.

My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.

You have a transportation fetish. I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.