Barry bonds

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.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

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.

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

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...

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

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

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

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.