Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family.

Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I never give up. If you beat me, you have to beat me one, three, four, five times, and I still don't give up.

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.

You couldn’t control how your story started, but you can write a few good pages in there

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

I enjoy music that is commercial.

I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.

The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.

Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

No one knows enough to worry.

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.