Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

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.

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

{Iola Speaking} "The only time I seem to get you to actually say something is over coffee, so let’s latte.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

To me, locs are a symbol of strength and beauty, almost like a lion's mane.