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

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

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

"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 don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.