Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if it's his stance, his eyes or what, but you can tell he means business.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

I love the fans and I appreciate how much they care for me.

Mangers consolidate the present. Leaders create the future.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.