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

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'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.

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

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.

For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.

What hurts the most?Rejection..

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.