“It’s always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I’m just another Dunn to them.”

In my opinion I really haven’t done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

I hope baseball doesn’t get to the point where everyone’s saying, ‘He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!’ because not all of us do. I’ve been big my whole life, and I’ll always be big. That’s all natural.

In baseball, it’s tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band’s playing. I do miss that

Cincinnati is perfect for me. I’ve met a lot of good people there who like to fish.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

I’m a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.

I have fun. I always have fun. I don’t really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that’s how I try to play baseball.

Hey, I’m serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have?

I’m a realist. And realists don’t fool themselves.

So perfect – I’m right where I need to be!

Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.

There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.

My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.

I always say what I think to be amusing.

When somebody has convinced you that you’re not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.