I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power.

Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.

I eat healthy and stay active and drink plenty of water.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

Angels and Airwaves shows are like an ascension to Heaven.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.