People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

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.

To say that, “I will not agree (will not accept)” is great egoism!

I am the universe and the universe is inside of me.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

Homoeopathy is supposed to work miracles.