I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

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.

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.

You can disagree with an idea without attacking the person who shared it.

Working with plants will teach you all other social commitments in a soothing way...

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.

I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

I've been wrestling with reality for most of my life. I'm pleased to say I've won.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

You might be a redneck if your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.