I am extremely sorry for the stress and confusion I have brought on the Braves organization.

The last thing I want to do... is offend people and ostracize myself.

I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.

I'll admit I said something I shouldn't have said.

I've taken a lot of crap from a lot of people. Probably more than anybody in the history of this sport. I know Hank (Aaron) and Jackie (Robinson) took a good deal of crap, but I guarantee it wasn't for six years. I just keep thinking: How much am I supposed to take?