I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.

I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.

I don't like controversy.

I don't want to get fat.

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

I'm not a racist.

I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.

If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

It's always an honor to represent your country.

Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

The ESPN complex is a 255-acre playland, as beautiful and perfect as the Magic Kingdom itself down the road - except it's sports!

Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.

Research has shown that middle-income wage earners would benefit most from a large reduction in corporate tax rates. The corporate tax is not a rich-man's tax. Corporations don't even pay it. They just pass the tax on in terms of lower wages and benefits, higher consumer prices, and less stockholder value.

I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth.

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

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Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.