I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.
I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
