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

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.

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

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

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.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.

Let go with love.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.