- What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.
- 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.
- I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.
- In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.'
- I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
- Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.
- I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.
- This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
- I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.
- Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?
- 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 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.
- I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
- Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
- I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
- I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.
- Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful.
- 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.
- You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.
- I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
- The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.
- 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.
- My message is that steroids is bad. Don't do them. It's a bad message.
- 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.
- I had good years when I took steroids, and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn't have done it, and for that, I'm truly sorry.
- The steroids I did were on a very, very low dosage. I didn't want to take a lot of that. I didn't want to look like Arnold Schwartzenegger or Lou Ferrigno.
- I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.
- The only team that could have competed with us was the Cubans. It's too bad they're boycotting. The teams we're playing just can't compete with our power.
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