Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period.

Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.

I have never used steroids. Period.

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

Get busy to love everyone, you will not have time or opportunity to fight with anyone.

I never said she was a lady.

The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.