War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

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.

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.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

It's not a revolution if nobody loses

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists.