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" I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script. "

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" Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome. "

" I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel. "

" 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. "

" I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work. "

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

" 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. "

" When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character. "

" I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky. "

" I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film. "

" Say something personal, not from a publicist. "

" The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control. "

" There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life. "

" The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies. "

" My sister Kathleen - one year older - was the school's acting legend. Her thing was getting all the parts, even Tiresias. And I wasn't going to mess with that. "

" 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G. "

" Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise. "

" As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me. "

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

" You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role. "

" 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. "

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

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

" To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff. "

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

" I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy. "

" 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. "

" I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark. "