I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

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.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

I wanna outrace the speed of pain.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

Rose,” he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, “I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what’s not on the list? Sane.

We like something because someone else liked it.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.