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.

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.

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

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

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