You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

You can never fall in love with a team.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I just want to play baseball.

The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become.

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There's a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.