In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

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.

Your past success and victories, small or large, can renew your resolve to persevere if you are willing to lean on them.

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

We cannot hate those who we despise.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

Don't worry about things, that you can do better next time. Don't worry about stuff you can't control.

If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

Ayame: Hello, Tori-san!! You're not going to believe what Yuki just told me!

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.