It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.
Rafael Palmeiro

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
Rafael Palmeiro

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
Rafael Palmeiro

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
Rafael Palmeiro

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
Rafael Palmeiro

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
Rafael Palmeiro

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
Rafael Palmeiro

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
Rafael Palmeiro

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.
Rafael Palmeiro

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
Rafael Palmeiro

With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.
Rafael Palmeiro

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
Rafael Palmeiro

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
Rafael Palmeiro

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
Rafael Palmeiro

You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
Rafael Palmeiro