I'm not here to discuss the past. I'm here to be positive...

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

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

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

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.

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

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.