In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

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.

God is master architect of our lives.

I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

I'm not goin' anywhere, I'm right here!

I knew that the Mets had never had a no-hitter. I never had one. This is very special. I knew this means a lot to New York.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.