“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 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.

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.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he’s going to be.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.’

It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.