I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
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.
I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.
I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
I'm a very routine-oriented guy.
I don't miss anything I did for a living.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.
I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.
War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.
I loved fantasy role play.
On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
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.
The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.
I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
