I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.

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.

It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

Even though the third season of Necessary Roughness was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.