I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

I'm not fast. But there are a lot of guys that are a hell of a lot slower than I am. Somebody wants to do a pay-per-view race between me and [Tom] Brady, sign me up.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

Do not try to be the best, but never forget to try your best.

Try evolving as much as you cry.

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

I was always really into the music rather than the scene.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.