Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

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.

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

Politicians look for interests not people

The gain is not the having of children it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

There's something going on and it's bad. And I'm saying we have to get to the bottom of it.

Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.

I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!