It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

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.

One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.

Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.

You have a different audience. Your personal energy is different because some days you're energized, some nights you might be tired so that affects your memory and your emotion.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

The NSA's vision statement is: keep the problem going so the money keeps flowing.