I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.

I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.

Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.

I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

If your child's gonna be a star it's going to happen and just let it happen.

There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.

When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.

It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love and happiness will flower, as fear begins to die.

Say only what you mean.

The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I've just begun.

Sometimes there are times you actually don't want to be in the information loop on some rumors; because once you're in the loop, then if something leaks, you're one of the people in the loop.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.