I like to be against the odds.

- Barry Bonds

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.

- Barry Bonds

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

- Barry Bonds

I don't know what my future is.

- Barry Bonds

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

- Barry Bonds

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

- Barry Bonds

I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

- Barry Bonds

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

- Barry Bonds

Baseball is just my job.

- Barry Bonds

Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

- Barry Bonds

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 earned it.

- Barry Bonds

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.

- Barry Bonds

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

- Barry Bonds

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

- Barry Bonds

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.

- Barry Bonds

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

- Barry Bonds

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

- Barry Bonds

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

- 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.

- Barry Bonds

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

- Barry Bonds