I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.

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,'

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.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Courage comes from knowing that fear is a false perception.

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

I'm a mix; I'm sure some of my Canadian friends find me very American, both in person and on the page.

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.