Sammy Sosa Quotes

I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

I've been fortunate enough to play at all the age groups but I'm not eligible for them anymore.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.

He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.

I know a little about Hack (Wilson) because his picture is next to my locker. I am lucky to be there at the right time. People will now remember two guys, Hack Wilson and myself, and the season is not over yet.

Mark (McGwire) is the man.

You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on the minutiae of technical things. And I just thought it'd be fun to do something extremely fast and get that rush of something that had some energy, something that you weren't tired of when you finished it.

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

What I'm going to miss is the competition, being, that's OK, I can watch from the house.

What you're experiencing now [on "MasterChef," on "Junior"] is what life's going to be like for the next four, five decades. You're going to go through those bumps. Bringing you back in contention and giving you that kind of confidence, they're huge. But they let it go, there's no fear, they're naughty, they're rude, and they know there's no parents and there's no school teacher so they can have fun, and it shows.

Fighters are afraid of conditioning, they are afraid of getting tired, but I don't want to have anxiety or be afraid of anything. I can go 100 percent out there and never have to worry about getting tired. Everybody says fighting is 90 percent mental, and it's true. Knowing you can go 15 minutes or 25 minutes without any problem can help you sustain that mental advantage over your opponent.

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and i still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap.

If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

I imagined that being someday in pro ball I would have been Kevin Costner in Bull Durham. If I had never discovered acting, I literally would have been that guy.

How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?" "Seventeen and two fifths." Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.