Losing dad (Bobby Bonds) was the worst thing in the world.

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.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.

If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

Absorb ideas from every source.

Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?