“Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you’ll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.”

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

I’ve always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

Losing dad (Bobby Bonds) was the worst thing in the world.

I’m clean, I’ve always been clean.

It’s not the name that makes the player. It’s the player.

I’m a very private person. My life story isn’t for everybody.

When I finish playing, I think I’d like to coach college baseball.

I like to be against the odds. I’m not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it’s just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn’t matter how good you are.

I don’t know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don’t believe it. I don’t believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

I don’t know if the record is going to happen. I don’t really think about the record. There are other things I worry about.

Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

I have a chef who makes sure that I’m getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation.

It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.

I may be a nut, but I’m fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.