I'm just another guy who likes his job and doesn't like his commute.
My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals.
I'm pretty sure when I need a comma; I'm not so sure about a semicolon.
The best class I ever took in high school was typing.
Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.
I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.
I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.
They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.
The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.
You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.
I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.
Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.
You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.
I love baseball.
A pitcher's arm goes, and they're done.
I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.
I love to read, and I've always loved to write.
I like to write, and I try to be positive and optimistic.
My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.
