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" I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing. "

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" I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again. "

" When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible. "

" I really like the way Fox handles their shows. "

" I try to keep a low profile. "

" DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does. "

" Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this. "

" With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold. "

" If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks. "

" I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids. "

" I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can. "

" A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films. "

" The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned. "

" I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there. "

" On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None. "

" I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male. "

" Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance. "

" I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia. "

" John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone. "

" If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels. "

" There's nobility in hard work, traditional values. "

" I love Vanna White as much as the next guy. "

" Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center? "

" I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs. "

" I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.' "

" When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner. "

" If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone. "

" I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat. "

" I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti. "

" I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career. "