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

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.

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.

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.

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

I refuse to be silenced.

But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Quite seriously. Be careful.

Whether statistics be an art or a science… or a scientific art.

Which one will it be? Time alone will tell.