In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

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.

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.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Self-acceptance is self-love in action.

Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.

Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.