Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

"The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of thinking. Especially now, when we're involved in the war on terror. Terror is a psychological term. Terrorism is a political term. Terrorist is a sociopolitical term. But terror is a psychological thing.

I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced.

I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.

I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.