I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

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.

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.