You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.
There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.
The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it. The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.
Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.
When it’s all said and done, I want to be able to say I got the most out of my potential. I don’t want to look back, however many years from now, and say, ‘I wonder if I would have worked a little harder. I wonder if I would have done this or done that, how things would have turned out. ’ I want to, when it’s all said and done, be able to put my head on my pillow and say, ‘I did everything I could do — good or bad. ’
I take positives out of negatives all the time.
I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.
When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
Born down in a dead man's town; The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 'Til you spend half your life just covering up.