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

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.

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.

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.

I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they had given him as much as a hundred bucks, it would be a long night.

Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and enlarges.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

Dogs: the best friend you will ever have that pees on your couch and stays your friend.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum.