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

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.

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

It’s happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there’s an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.