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

The technological age we're in now is the perfect forum for constant misdirection and constant distraction. I ultimately think it's a war to keep people from realizing the true nature of themselves and the true nature of life. All the things people are in pursuit of now, in 2014, are total illusions. It just destroys people's happiness.

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.

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

It's pretty obvious there's a lot of corruption in the world right now. That takes many forms. There's economic, political, religious, social corruption. Just the manipulation that takes place with all the information that people are given, and even just the way the world is presented as this concrete block, this concrete idea that there's not really an alternative at this point in the world. You can't really go off and live your own life off in your own world.

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

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.