More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

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.

No sin is beyond forgiveness.

A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream.

All was possible

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.