Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

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.

If my fall made you smile, you might not want to witness what's about to happen when I get up.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.