Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

I don't miss anything I did for a living.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.

And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love.

...bravery often demands a price.

I think something very simple that everybody can do is they can participate in medical research as subjects. Personal genome project, for example, will take on as many subjects as we can find.

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.