I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

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.

The heart symbolizes the center of our moral, spiritual, and intellectual life. It is the seat of our conscience and life.

Cracks in our souls help us bear the overwhelming imperfections of the world. They're not our flaws. Kindness knows this.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.