You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

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.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.