The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.
Some of the things I've done are really special.
I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.
I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.
Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.
I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.
None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty
On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence
The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything