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" Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. "
Actor
Interested
Tell
" A pitcher's arm goes, and they're done. "
Goes
Done
Arm
" 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. "
Brother
Me
Early
" 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. "
Someone
Mine
Good
" I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up. "
Writing
Grades
Good
" I always performed out of fear of failure - and that's a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me. "
Failure
Play
People
" I am a human being. I have anxiety. I have doubts. And I'm not afraid to put it out there. "
Afraid
Human
Being
" I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season. "
Season
Cost
Game
" I don't believe in playing just one sport. I believe it results in burnout, and each sport trains your body in a different way. "
Believe
Way
Results
" I had great moments. I had not-great moments. "
Moments
Had
Great Moments
" I have a natural tendency to resist conformity. "
Tendency
Resist
Conformity
" I like to write, and I try to be positive and optimistic. "
Try
Write
Optimistic
" I love baseball. "
I Love
Baseball
Love
" I love to read, and I've always loved to write. "
Love
Read
Loved
" I'm just another guy who likes his job and doesn't like his commute. "
Just
Job
Like
" I'm pretty sure when I need a comma; I'm not so sure about a semicolon. "
Comma
Need
Sure
" In New York, I have a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1947. They're beaming at home plate in Houston's Buffalo Stadium. I love the photo because my dad is smiling. He didn't smile much in his later years. "
Home
Day
Smile
" I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning - you're running up and down the courts. Then you come into baseball, you're doing a sprint to hit a triple. "
Football
You
School
" I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on the cover, and I figured I was going to read about the Egyptians. But it was this archeology. It was so dry. But I forced myself to read it because it was my first book out of the library. Should have gotten a 'Hardy Boys.' "
Wait
Remember
Myself
" I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times. "
Gettysburg
Half
Been
" I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about. "
Me
Tears
Hard
" I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout. "
Dugout
Women
Say
" 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. "
Family
Team
Baseball
" My high school coach was a bit of a jerk. "
High
High School
Jerk
" The best class I ever took in high school was typing. "
Best
School
High School
" The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it. "
Little League
Play
Little
" The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four. "
Yankees
Better
Starting
" They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game. "
Lose
Game
Johnson
" Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball. "
Average
Baseball
Game
" When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he threw on my bed when he was finished with them. This continued throughout my childhood and made me a reader for life. "
Life
Week
Me
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