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

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?

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.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.

There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.

The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.