I don't pitch for contracts.

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.

Then you know. You know what it's like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are