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" I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid. "

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" 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? "

" In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves. "

" I'm a very routine-oriented guy. "

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

" I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to? "

" I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds. "

" I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot. "

" As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm loud. I talk too much; I think I know more than I do - those and a billion other issues I know I have. "

" 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. "

" One thing I was told early in my career is when you walk out on the field, the name on the back of your jersey is not yours - it's your dad's. I've carried that with me forever as something - I've worked harder and learned more about my father since he passed than when he was alive, because when he was alive, I was young, and I knew everything. "

" I've got thick skin. "

" It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab. "

" I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars. "

" Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is. "

" I loved fantasy role play. "

" Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I'm a Republican. I'm a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking - a lot - about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand - right or wrong, agree or disagree - on anything. "

" I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer. "

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" I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place. "