Barry Bonds Quotes (149 Quotes)

I'm not thinking about the games yet. I want to be there with the guys. I can't wait to get home, to see the fans in San Francisco. I love the ballpark, the city, the fans. I feel I will play this season, but I don't know when.

I don't think I ever played a nine-inning game any year before. I never need to play a nine-inning game. I'm ready to play a nine-inning game now. You saw in the world classic guys are playing nine innings already. We're capable of playing nine innings. Do you want to No, not in spring training when you can take advantage of the rest period.

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

We can talk about baseball or we don't have a conversation.

I don't worry about stuff.

Oh, Congress should let it go Gee, I wonder why he would say that.

I just put it off the field so no one would get hurt.

I can't tell you how many pain pills I am on or how many sleeping pills I'm taking. I don't have a choice. I can't even run that much anymore. How can I run. I don't have any cartilage in that knee. I'm bone on bone.

It's working real good. I hope it stays like that all year.

But who knows My knee may be like this for the rest of my life, ... I have to give it an honest effort. I have to give it a shot ... to say I did what I did to try to get it back to normal. And if it doesn't go back to normal then that's just the way the knee is.

During the past 15 days, my knee has been feeling great,

I haven't thought about that right now. I'll think about it later.

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

Everyone has their time and era, ... In all sports.

It's been a long time. I can't even remember. What's the impact of me going to Tucson None

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

The only person I can measure myself against is myself. It's all up to me to do my job and prove that I'm doing it at the ability that I feel that I should be doing it, contributing to the ball club.

I want to get my legs strong again, ... Hopefully I'll train hard all winter. I can hit it, but I don't feel like I feel when I'm strong. I can tell out there. I'm older now. It's harder.

Baseball is just my job.

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.

The best thing is to keep myself in this uphill climb and not go downhill in order to be able to maintain that through next season as well, ... There's more baseball in me. I don't want to work so hard and then, bang, drop so that now I'm sitting in rehab all winter. . . . Don't do something dumb now and never be able to play again. I think it took a lot of the doctors' kicking my butt to get me to realize that.

There's no doubt in my mind that I can still play the game at a high level. I have a short period of time to try to help as much as I can, and hopefully it doesn't hurt the team.

Members of Congress, particularly Tom Davis, can walk and chew gum at the same time.

I might not play again this weekend, ... That's how much pain I'm in right now.

I may wake up and I'm so sore I feel like I can't do it and by two hours later, I feel great and I do it. I've been doing that for years.

I have been playing catch and in the next few weeks I hope to be in the cage doing some hitting. There is a good possibility I could be back in September with the team but if not I will definitely be in the 2006 line-up.

I thought I would be a lot more sore, thought I'd have a lot harder time than I have. I'm pleased, because I'm not really that sore.

So far, so good. I hate to say anything just in case somewhere down the road something happens, but at this stage and the way I feel, I'll play, definitely.

His swing is intact. The hand-eye coordination is intact. The bat is ready. The other stuff, I don't want to get into.

I want to be able to play with my kids, man. There's a lot more to life than baseball.

The record is Hank's until someone passes it. Whoever that person is, I wish them well. If it happens to be me, that's it. It's just having the opportunity. You hope you can inspire some little kid somewhere down the road to say, 'I want to break Hank's record, I want to break Barry Bonds' record.' That's all the record really means to me.

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

I don't judge those things. I have to concentrate on baseball.

I just want to go back to San Francisco, play with these guys and give us every chance we have to get to the playoffs. I want to see the fans of San Francisco. I miss the city, I just want to go home. I can't wait to go home.

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

Both are illegal and immoral. The tactic of obtaining stories by breaking the law is disturbing.

I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

I'm not playing baseball anymore after this. The game isn't fun anymore. I'm tired of all the crap going on. I want to play this year, hopefully win, and once the season is over, go home and be with my family. Maybe then everybody can just forget about me.

Hurricane Katrina presented the cover for Bonds this week. I think we have other issues in this country to worry about that are a lot more serious, ... We have a crisis here. ... Right now people are losing lives and don't have homes. I think that's a little more serious a lot more serious.

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

It's not unrealistic, but right now it's just a matter of how I recover after today and possibly tomorrow.

Can we just talk baseball Please.

That's what my goal is right now and I expect to be ready, ... But the doctors are telling me playing this year might put that in jeopardy, that I could undo any gains I've already made. No matter how much I want to play, I'm not going to let that happen.

I'm just going to listen to what the doctors tell me. The doctors are telling me to let it heal, so I'm going to let it heal.

He told me, ... to get all I could get out of the game of baseball.

I feel good. I've been hitting for a while now. I'm comfortable. I'm just trying to get consistent.

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.

I don't even know the guy. Tell him he's an idiot. Somebody said he wanted a piece of me. Tell him I'm at 24 Willie Mays Plaza and he can come get me anytime he wants to -- with pleasure. Don't insult my family.