I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.

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.

Travel is an urge best cultivated from within.

You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instil in them the spirit of possession?

What do you want?’'I want to play, ’ he said.I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’m involved in, but you want a piece of it.’'Following you around lets me kill a lot of people.

When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Yogi Bear changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me.