I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.

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.

John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink.

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."