It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

I'm not fast. But there are a lot of guys that are a hell of a lot slower than I am. Somebody wants to do a pay-per-view race between me and [Tom] Brady, sign me up.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

you are you when you are true

The emotional brain existed long before the rational brain.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy.

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!

I'm very much looking forward to doing nothing fixed, just riding for fun.