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" I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball. "

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" 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. "

" In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go. "

" 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. "

" I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway? "

" I've got thick skin. "

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

" The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me. "

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

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" 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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" I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool. "

" Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done. "

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" People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid. "

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