Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?
If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.
The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.
I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
I'm not here to discuss the past. I'm here to be positive...
I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.
I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.
Some of the longest home runs I've hit, I didn't actually realize they were going that far. Everyone says, 'What does it feel like to hit the ball that far?' Actually, there's no feeling at all. I know when the ball meets the bat whether or not it's left the park. It's a nice easy thing.
You can't let other people dictate what your art is supposed to be. That's the opposite of art. You should constantly be challenging yourself to grow and change and create and evolve. I'm into that spirit of experimental and underground music. The constant, the groping, seeking, moving forward, regardless of where it might take you at that moment. It's all part of a larger arc.
The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.
I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.
Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like.
"The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of thinking. Especially now, when we're involved in the war on terror. Terror is a psychological term. Terrorism is a political term. Terrorist is a sociopolitical term. But terror is a psychological thing.
The technological age we're in now is the perfect forum for constant misdirection and constant distraction. I ultimately think it's a war to keep people from realizing the true nature of themselves and the true nature of life. All the things people are in pursuit of now, in 2014, are total illusions. It just destroys people's happiness.
What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.
Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.
When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.
