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.

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.

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.

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

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

Every Friday is black where I work.

In the twenty-first century, we use a nineteenth-century school model with twentieth-century values. There’s clearly something wrong with this picture.

Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

It is the most horrific thought—my husband died among strangers.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say.

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.