Barry Bonds

“Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.”

“I don't want to be a Major League coach.”

“I don't know what my future is.”

“Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.”

“But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.”

“I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.”

“There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.”

“I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.”

“I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.”

“It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.”

“I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.”

“I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.”

“Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.”

“I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.”

“It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.”

“I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.”

“I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.”

“Baseball is just my job.”

“I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.”

“I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.”