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" I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before. "

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" The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone. "

" In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do. "

" I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end. "

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" I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate. "

" 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 tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing. "

" I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.' "

" I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning. "

" I don't miss anything I did for a living. "

" I don't have a racist bone in my body. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop. "

" One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures. "

" I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency. "

" More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting. "

" Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death. "

" I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career. "

" If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops. "

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" The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out. "

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" 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. "