When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.
The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.
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'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.
The most important to me is, Theo is a good person first and foremost. And I think that has a lot to do with it. He's not deceitful. He's an honest guy, a good guy. There's a lot more to this thing than it being a job for him, being born and raised here, the Red Sox being as important as they are to him. Above all else, Theo understands he's a compromiser. Theo understands that the clubhouse is our home. He doesn't invade that privacy often. When he does, he doesn't make you uncomfortable and that says as much about him as anything.
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.
I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.
I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
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.
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.
I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?
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.
When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.
I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.
