Rod was a very meaningful person in my life, instrumental in my becoming the player that I was and the person that I am. I loved him a lot.
There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.
I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
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.